.------[ Neil Bauman wrote (2003/03/28 at 00:50:03) ]------
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| On 3/27/03 at 11:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vicki Brown) wrote:
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| > Do a lot of people have both Perl and Java experience?
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| When the dust settles, according to The Gartner Group, the IT world will
| be 40% .NET, 40% Java, and 20% Open Source.
|
| I tend to agree with this assessment.
|
| Given that Java and C# are, for all intents and purposes, identical, and
| given the likely dearth of programming jobs for the next few years, I
| would urge all Open Source programmers to learn Java or C#.
|
| As for your specific question, it does seem quite unusual to want
| someone to have both Java and Perl experience. BUT, in these days of
| having to do more with fewer, for those (albeit few) shops that have
| both Java and Perl apps, it surely does make sense to look for someone
| who could tackle projects in either language.
|
| Lastly, from what I understand, Perl does play nicely with Java. To what
| degree I don't know but I am under the impression that, at a minimum,
| you can call Java code from a Perl script.
|
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Are you saying people should learn Java or C# because they are good
languages and/or programming environments or just to get a job?
Personally I've never really seen the usefulness of Java or C#
other than putting it on your resume. ( And yes I've written Java
professionally, granted a long long time ago on a computer system
far far away ).
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I work in a 99% Open Source shop where we
do all of our development in Perl and all of our web stuff in
mod_perl.
P.S. I'm not trying to start a my language is better than your
language flame war. I'm just interested in everyone's opinion on
this.
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Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://frank.wiles.org
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