what the best language for web contracts

[expat]

im coming to end of a java contract, and am wondering whether its worth learning c#/.net (im lucky enough to be taking a little break for a few months) ?

what are the in demand languages for contracting in your opinion?

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.

Actually I find the best language to use in contracting is English, since it is widely spoken by the people in India who do the work.

[Sir_Edward_Matheson]

better still, avoid the java variants and stick with MUMPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

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[TheRefactornator]

better still, avoid the java variants and stick with MUMPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

Ha mumps! The clinical software house I'm at right now have a massive legacy codebase in mumps and some guys there who are still very good at it...well I suppose you'd have to be if you were a permie there. Personally I had a quick look myself, but coming from a C / Delphi and more recently C# background I have to say it's the weirdest looking piece of cack I've ever seen...those that love it and still work with say it's fast though..

[alreadypacked]

Actually I find the best language to use in contracting is English, since it is widely spoken by the people in India who do the work.

I tried telling them to do some work today in English. They didn't do any

One of the off-shore team sent me a status report that included creating 4 empty folders and deleting folders other folders as work! I had already sent a mail explaining in English creating folders was not work.

So I am not sure you are correct about English in India

[moorfield]

Try shouting at them. They are a long way away after all.

[Spacecadet]

So I am not sure you are correct about English in India

Probably 1 advantage of not being a native English speaker is that you can pick and choose when to understand the language

Seriously though, I thought most schools (the better ones anyway) in India taught everything in English.

[Ardesco]

As yes the wonderful English Literature teaching that means I get documents filled with such gems like:

updation
coz
u
thx!
thankz
dis

etc.

(yes it's the sort of thing you would expect from kiddies writing text messages not what you expect to see in business documents that are meant to be taken seriously).

Don't even get me started about the horrible grammar I see on a daily basis......

[alreadypacked]

Probably 1 advantage of not being a native English speaker is that you can pick and choose when to understand the language

Seriously though, I thought most schools (the better ones anyway) in India taught everything in English.

They speak English, but some words they find difficult to apply. Work is the one my lot have difficulty with.

[kingshuk]

I thought most schools (the better ones anyway) in India taught everything in English.

No. Most private schools in India (i,e public school in 'English') teach some subjects in English. The vast majority of schools are government schools and language of instruction is usually the local language.

Barring a few exceptions, quality of English teaching in the private schools is uniformly poor and most of us pick up some smattering of English much later in life - from college, movies and of course our english speaking clients

[Ruprect]

They speak English, but some words they find difficult to apply. Work is the one my lot have difficulty with.

I find that there is little use of "initiative" and "thought" either.