From: "Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr." <eustaquiorangel@...>
Date: 2005-01-05T20:28:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby JOBS all around the world

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Hello there.

|>And back to your question: Most companies normally hire on skills and not
on a
|>special language. Learn many languages (at least 5) find a job and
|>then convince your boss to use the language you are most productive
|>and that fits well enough for your task.
|
| Absolutely agree with you. Language is only a tool that one uses to
| solve problems. No company hires a person based on his language skills
| -- unless the company is run by a bunch of retards.
|
| Companies normally look into a person's problem solving abilities.
| Language is really secondary. Now what language you can use for your
| projects depends on the amount of freedom that you have -- which is
| usually less in a big-company setting.
|
| Of course, you could always *try* to convince a company why language A
| would be better then language B -- and you're reasons must be good, of
| course. It also depends how willing your company is to let you use a
| language that itself doesn't become the problem. ;)

Unfortunelly, this is not what Paul Graham thinks it's a "real hacker".
But I don't care about him. :-)

I totally agree with you on the point that people wants people that solves
its problems, not with a language skills, but with their brains.

Some guys can be *really* good on some languages, but if they don't are
smart enought to see that in some cases one language are better for a kind
of problem than their beloved one.

The sad thing is that they start to call everyone that don't uses the XYZ
language as loosers. And they miss a good point to make some good friends
and talk with some good professional with this kind of attitude.

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Eust�quio "TaQ" Rangel
eustaquiorangel@yahoo.com
http://beam.to/taq
Usu�rio GNU/Linux no. 224050
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