On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Brian L. Stuart <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...To tell you the truth, I'm not very
> likely to hire anyone who isn't conversant with at least half a
> dozen different languages. ...
Although I agree with almost everything Brian said in his post, I’ll posit at
least one exception here. There exist languages (the Mathematica programming
language is the one I’m familiar with) which permit programming in multiple
different styles - procedural, list-processing, object-oriented, etc.. I would
be pretty willing to consider a candidate who understood the differences, and
could select the appropriate programming style for the task at hand, even if
they were familiar with only the one “language”. But, it would not be trivial
to demonstrate that the candidate actually had that breadth of understanding;
production of sample code in a half-dozen languages would be an easier metric
to apply, so maybe my exception is not useful.
- Mark
