Why does every Jobserve ad want C++ or Java

[Bunk]

Why the hell did you think a beardy obscure language like Python was going to get you a contract.

C/C++
Java
C#

Are the bread and butter of contracting as a coder.

Javascript

[DimPrawn]

Javascript

What next Logo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

[Moscow Mule]

There's something terribly wrong here.

That listing shows about ten times as many contracts (all different, at a cursory glance) for a creaky old punched card language like RPG400 than for perl and python combined.

Indeed. And people say the "system i"* is on the way out...

For financial software, you can't beat it as a big, reliable, number cruncher.

Has had virtualisation for the last god knows how long too and with the advent of the new Power 7 systems, they are going to get even more popular.



*AS400 if you started working before 2005

[The_Equalizer]

Javascript

Dare I say front-end web stuff seems to okay on the contract front.

[Bunk]

Dare I say front-end web stuff seems to okay on the contract front.

Shh! Don't blow it for us.

[OwlHoot]

Why the hell did you think a beardy obscure language like Python was going to get you a contract.

C/C++
Java
C#

Are the bread and butter of contracting as a coder.

I agree, but perl has been my bread and butter for several years, and quite a few perl contracts list python as a "nice to have", or in some cases essential.

But the more I learn of Python the less I like it. For a start there's that daft retrograde aspect of indentation being vital to syntax. But also, its features have been continually on the move throughout the version 2 fix releases, and a huge assortment of changes at Version 3 including many features removed or not backwards compatible. So one has to learn not just the language but exactly when each feature became available (or disappeared).

Oh well, now I've started I may as well finish learning it and then move onto Java (which I should have done years ago if I hadn't been so idle).

[VectraMan]

But the more I learn of Python the less I like it. For a start there's that daft retrograde aspect of indentation being vital to syntax.

Stupidest design of any programming language ever.

My problem tends to be that all the C++ jobs want MSSQL or Oracle too.