walterbyrd a écrit : > Larry Bates wrote: > > >>I'd be surprised if there was more demand for PHP developers >>than Python developers. > > > Prepare to be surprised. From what I have seen demand for PHP > developers is off-the-scale higher than demand for Python developers.
Anyone that knows how to program and understand the http protocol is already a PHP developer. > If you search the job boards, then -IMO- it is only fair to not include > jobs where the language is listed as an also-ran. Then you'll find *very* few "Python developper" jobs. > For example a typical > sys-admin job will list about 24 skills, and python is often thrown > into the landry list. To my way of thinking, that is not really an ad > for a python developer. No, it's an ad for a sys-admin job. FWIW, I've been hired as a web developer - not as a PHP or Java or whatever specific language programmer. Python wasn't even on the "landry list". Then we had to hire another developer to help me on a Zope-based project. We didn't hired a "Zope developer", nor even a "Python developer" - we hired a young C/Perl hacker with almost no prior web programming knowledge. Why ? Because he obviously was the best *programmer* we could find. As a matter of fact, he managed to become a productive Zope/Python programmer in less than two weeks. > Trying to be as fair as I can be, my research shows that demand for > developers where PHP is the primary is *far* higher than jobs where > Python is the primary skills. There are companies that believe that there are such things as "PHP programmer", "Java programmers", etc. And there are companies that know the difference between a programmer and a code-monkey. The first one will ask for 10+ years of experience on a techno that is less than 5 years old. The other will know a good coder when they meet one. Guess where are most 'Python programmers' working ? > Of course, at best, that only shows the demand part of the equation. Not even. > There is also the supply side to consider. From what I have seen for > salary offers for PHP developers, it may be fair to say that PHP > developers are a dime a dozen. > Anyone that knows how to program and understand the http protocol is already a PHP developer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
