From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-06T02:49:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby JOBS all around the world

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:41:31 +0900, Oliver Cromm
<lispamateur@internet.uqam.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:26:56 +0900, Premshree Pillai wrote:
> 
> > No company hires a person based on his language skills
> 
> Add ...alone, and I agree.
> 
> > -- unless the company is run by a bunch of retards.
> 
> If the task of the employed is to maintain and extend large existing
> applications, knowledge of the language used becomes a prerequisite. And

Yes, knowledge of the domain language is _important_, but _secondary_.
Problem solving skills come first.

Also, a lot of organizations hire people based on their
problem-solving skills alone  -- i.e., whether or not the person knows
the _required_ domain knowledge -- and train them on stuff that the
organization uses. (This is true of most big organizations in India;
smaller companies, generally, do not have a training process.)

> this is not a rare scenario. Although it becomes more and more possible
> to integrate modules from different languages, for maintainability
> reasons this is not always favorable.
> --
> Oliver C.
> 45n31, 73w34
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> 
> 


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Premshree Pillai
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