From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T22:33:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?

Dick Davies wrote:
> * Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> [0554 02:54]:
> 
>>Last week I went for a job interview for a Perl/C/C++ job.  One of the 
>>interviewers saw that I had done a lot of Perl (including OOPerl) in the 
>>past, so he started asking me a lot of Perl questions.
> 
> 
> Funnily enough, I had an interview where I got asked some simple Perl
> questions, which were easy enough to answer.
> 
> Then I got a real beauty: 'So, what would you say is wrong with Perl?'
> 

About a month ago I interviewed a number of candidates for a Java 
developer position.  Aside from the usual tech questions, I asked them 
what they didn't like about the language.  Most of them had a hard time 
thinking of anything.  Those that knew and used more than three 
programing languages were more likely to list issues and annoyances, but 
most of the candidates had little to say about it.

This led me to believe that they either did not know the language all 
that well, or they don't think critically about the tools they use, or 
they were not inclined to speak up when they saw a problem with 
something.  None good.

And this is not a jab at Java; I would think that anybody deeply 
familiar with a language would have a few things things they disliked 
about it, even if, on the whole, they loved the language.

James