On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
>> Surely there's no shortage of .NET jobs, but is the same true of
>> Python? Can Ed or someone else chime in?
>
> There are tons of .Net jobs, just like 10 years ago there were tons of
> VB jobs. And like then, you'll be competing with a bunch of cut-rate n00bs
> who read a book or two and are now ".Net developers".
This article explains why there are so many openings for .Net
programmers:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/nobody-hates-software-more-than-software-developers.html
( -or- http://j.mp/aCDpDz )
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One of the (many) unfortunate side effects of choosing a career in software
development is that, over time, you learn to hate software. I mean really hate
it. With a passion. Take the angriest user you've ever met, multiply that by a
thousand, and you still haven't come close to how we programmers feel about
software. Nobody hates software more than software developers. Even now,
writing about the stuff is making me physically angry.
Isn't that an odd attitude coming from people whose job it is to write
software? How can we hate what we get paid to create every day?
David Parnas explained in an interview:
Q: What is the most often-overlooked risk in software engineering?
A: Incompetent programmers. There are estimates that the number of programmers
needed in the U.S. exceeds 200,000. This is entirely misleading. It is not a
quantity problem; we have a quality problem. One bad programmer can easily
create two new jobs a year. Hiring more bad programmers will just increase our
perceived need for them. If we had more good programmers, and could easily
identify them, we would need fewer, not more.
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-- Ed Leafe
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