From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-05T20:34:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby JOBS all around the world

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:28:30 +0900, Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr.
<eustaquiorangel@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hello there.
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> |>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

Very right. But I *tend* to call people who don't use dynamic,
strong-typed languages losers. ;)

> and talk with some good professional with this kind of attitude.
> 
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