Chris wrote: > Daryl wrote: >> Well, by plethora I mean 5. And 3 of them seem to be the same job. > > Yep, that's a huge amount, not :-)
there are regularly python jobs advertised on a number of mail lists in on, VMWare is particularly hungry at the moment. they've advertised six jobs in the last 9 weeks. > I thought it might be interesting to see the proportions for different > languages in different cities for Seek IT Job listings: > > |-------------+----------+-------+-----------+--------| > | Search Term | Adelaide | Perth | Melbourne | Sydney | > |-------------+----------+-------+-----------+--------| > | Ruby | 2 | 1 | 27 | 58 | > | Perl | 4 | 19 | 157 | 312 | > | Python | 5 | 5 | 50 | 86 | > | COBOL | 5 | 4 | 22 | 42 | > | PHP | 9 | 26 | 174 | 312 | > | Javascript | 18 | 46 | 287 | 734 | > | ASP | 20 | 30 | 172 | 336 | > | VB | 29 | 23 | 100 | 332 | > | C | 33 | 107 | 234 | 525 | > | C++ | 39 | 122 | 228 | 596 | > | C# | 53 | 177 | 369 | 1189 | > | .NET | 54 | 220 | 609 | 1538 | > | Java | 62 | 125 | 631 | 1517 | > |-------------+----------+-------+-----------+--------| > > The dynamic languages don't fare well for job listings. > > Here's a stack of guesses to explore as to why this might be the case: > > - Existing programmers within organisations are so productive in moving > to dynamic languages that they haven't needed to employ extra > programmers even with growth. > > - Job satisfaction for existing programmers using dynamic languages > is higher than when using traditional languages, so there's no need > for filling replacement positions. > > - Dynamic languages aren't popular. > > - The popular dynamic languages have an interpreter implementation that > doesn't lend itself to hiding proprietary code from prying eyes. > > - It takes 10 to 20 times more people to produce software when > not using dynamic languages. - the bottom six languages are taught in Universities. - the bottom three languages are taught at TAFE - go to borders and pretty much the only books you'll find are on the bottom six languages kim -- Operating Systems, Services and Operations Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ sapug mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/sapug
