I'm not sure how to interpret the question, but I'll go with the metaphor that the J.O.B. market is the hat, so ifwhen I demonstrate skills at an astonishing enough level to be worth paying, then I will drop everything else in pursuit of the deep study of whatever language is that of the J.O.B. on offer.
I work better with many of the things I require being available out of the box. Solutions without any algorithms or design patterns. The sorting hat is definitely going to pick Java for me.
Born, raise in Tijuana, MX. With a degree in Philosophy, have worked as janitor, sales person, pizza delivery boy, teacher, press operator, prepress, desktop Publisher, and for the last 19 years dev
In a distant future when machines rule the world, the only hope for humanity is to inject a flash player into the Main-frame and inject an "spank the monkey" advertising banner to destroy our tyrants integrity.
Clearly some languages are past the sorting hat and are straight up servants of "He who should not be named". HTML+CSS+JavaScript are one such chimera serving the dark lord.
The productive but simple languages with good IDE's would go in one house together. Turbo Pascal, VB6, Flash/Flex/AS3, Visual Basic.NET... sounds like Gryffindor to me.
Nowadays, I write mostly TypeScript and love every moment of it, but sometimes, I wonder if the sorting hat would put me down as a Rustacean... even though I could partner up with Lua Lovegood while speaking Python.
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I'm not sure how to interpret the question, but I'll go with the metaphor that the J.O.B. market is the hat, so
ifwhen I demonstrate skills at an astonishing enough level to be worth paying, then I will drop everything else in pursuit of the deep study of whatever language is that of the J.O.B. on offer.I would hope Ruby, but I'm open to suggestions.
Ok opening a can of worms.
IMO a programming language has to be compiled and not require an engine to operate.
Anything else is a scripting language.
For me it's C.
Awaiting the 🔥
I work better with many of the things I require being available out of the box. Solutions without any algorithms or design patterns. The sorting hat is definitely going to pick Java for me.
(I use JavaScript now and don't use Java anymore)
First I have to mention briefly my history:
Among them Perl was only one I was able to think in.
Go seems very nice.
Perl 6 is promising but would not gain popularity.
I totally think in SQL
ActionScript3.0
In a distant future when machines rule the world, the only hope for humanity is to inject a flash player into the Main-frame and inject an "spank the monkey" advertising banner to destroy our tyrants integrity.
I would pick python for it's simplicity & JavaScript because the entire web runs on it's basis.
Clearly some languages are past the sorting hat and are straight up servants of "He who should not be named". HTML+CSS+JavaScript are one such chimera serving the dark lord.
The productive but simple languages with good IDE's would go in one house together. Turbo Pascal, VB6, Flash/Flex/AS3, Visual Basic.NET... sounds like Gryffindor to me.
Only in this world... Voldemort won.
Nowadays, I write mostly TypeScript and love every moment of it, but sometimes, I wonder if the sorting hat would put me down as a Rustacean... even though I could partner up with Lua Lovegood while speaking Python.
Gophindor!