On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:40 AM, nikunj badjatya > <nikunjbadja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all BangPyPers, > > > > I couldnt attend the January's user group meeting becoz of unforseen > > circumstances. > > I have one important question to ask to all of you, > > I am a fresher, recently completed my graduation, had started working on > > python 2 months back..!! and I just fell in love with the language. I > want > > to learn more about it. > > The only concern is there arent enough companies which work on Python. ( > > correct if I am wrong?? )[..] > > Technologies which companies work on will change continuously. If the > only criterion you have for selecting a language to learn is > employability, then COBOL or Java would be the best candidates. > > Not that there's anything wrong with programming purely as a job but I > suspect that many people on this list learn and do Python just because > they love the language and the technologies associated with it. > > The key to being employable is adaptability. You can become a > specialist in a domain perhaps but becoming a specialist *only* in a > single language is flirting with career suicide. > > Yes, don't make the mistake of confusing industry "platforms" with programming languages. For example, on the Windows/.NET "platform" the primary language is C#, but you can get by with VB, C++ or more recently even Python (IronPython). It is true that java is more of a platform than just a programming language, but then java is a language sponsored by Sun and is of a different genre. Python as a language is right now at cross-roads in terms of implementation, performance, versioning (2 vs 3 dilemma) and will perhaps change a lot during the next 2-3 years. However companies like Google are betting on Python (or their thinking of what "Python" should be), so the language clearly has a lot of scope. As Noufal said, don't become a language specialist, as that amounts to limiting yourself too much upfront. You should on the other hand get experience on domains of your liking (web, networking/security, mobile, games/multimedia etc) and then pick and choose tools including languages that fit the job. In my experience, companies prefer well-skilled generalists than deeply skilled specialists, unless one is an ultimate genius in what he does and irreplacable. --Anand > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
