From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 8 10:52:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1608937B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07DC243FDF for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1045162370.9785ae@mired.org) Received: (qmail 34725 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2003 18:52:50 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 8 Feb 2003 18:52:50 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15941.20993.593940.933429@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:52:49 -0600 To: Bill Moran Cc: northern snowfall , chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages In-Reply-To: <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com> References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org> <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.69 (Count Fleet) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm going to say one more thing on this subject, that's probably going to upset a lot of people. If the object is employability, my answers are SQL, VB and C#. Based on figures I've seen elsewhere, and my watching various technical help wanted locations, there are far more people wanted to write SQL than anything else. The problem is that it's balkanized, so that knowing the Postgres flavor may not work in getting you a job if they want someone who knows the Oracle flavor. VB just edges out perl, java and C++, which seem to be about even with each other. VB is also balkanized a bit, as each application apparently has it's own variant. You may wind up in the same situation as with SQL. C# actually trails perl, java and C++, but not by a lot. Since it's the fastest growing of the four, that may change in the near future. Obviously, Perl, Java and C++ are the choices if you don't like the balkanization of SQL and VB, and the newness of C#. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message