Reply to: what the best language for web contracts

[Zippy]

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

Are you worling with Bob Shawadiwadi?

[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.

[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

[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.

[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......

[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.

[moorfield]

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

[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

[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..

[Sir_Edward_Matheson]

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

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

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[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.

[KathyWoolfe]

C# vacancies massively outnumber VB.net ones.

So get into VB.net if you want something niche and therefore commanding a higher rate.

Better still avoid .net and stick with the java variants.

Isn't that because .NET is your market?

[lambrini_socialist]

C# vacancies massively outnumber VB.net ones.

So get into VB.net if you want something niche and therefore commanding a higher rate.

Better still avoid .net and stick with the java variants.

poor advice. in my experience, most folks doing .net hiring (perhaps unfairly) assume that C# coders will have no problem turning their hand to VB.NET, whereas being "just" a VB.NET coder is like a flashing neon sign over your head saying "cowboy". i once went to an interview to find that an agent had actually removed VB.NET from my CV because the manager was so heavily biased towards the curly-braced languages and VB.NET would count as a negative. (stupid, i know)

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

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

[PAH]

C# vacancies massively outnumber VB.net ones.

So get into VB.net if you want something niche and therefore commanding a higher rate.

Better still avoid .net and stick with the java variants.

[AlfredJPruffock]

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