Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

At Tuesday 26/9/2006 16:38, John Salerno wrote:

It's a nice thought that a person can earn a living programming with
Python, which is fun enough to use just for its own sake. But for
someone like me (i.e. no programming experience) it's always a little
disheartening to see that most (if not all) job descriptions that ask
for Python still require some C/C++ or other language knowledge. I
suppose this isn't an issue if you studied CS in college, because you
would have been exposed to many languages.

Sometimes it's the "one-size-fits-all" concept applied to workers: just one man to do all things.

But what if you are an expert Python program and have zero clue about
other languages? Can you still earn a living that way, or do most/all
companies require multiple language proficiency?

I think it's difficult to be an expert Python programmer and at the same time know nothing about other languages.
It's a bit like "general music practice", playing other instruments other than your main one may help a lot.

(I suppose this isn't exactly a Python problem, either. I'm sure even
companies that don't use Python still use multiple languages. Maybe it
isn't a good idea to focus entirely on a single language, depending on
the job at hand.)

As an example, here at work we use: mostly Python (for web applications) and Delphi (desktop) both for new projects; Java for some background data mining processes; and a bunch of BASIC/Pascal/FORTRAN legacy code which I wish I could throw away ...



Gabriel Genellina
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