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What is the most marketable language currently? |
| Message Name: |
Languages |
| Date Posted: |
12/31/2001 |
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I'm currently looking to change careers and am studying programming. The one thing that strikes me as funny is that no one can really give guidance as to which is the most marketable language currently. Understandably, anything to do with the internet is hot right now but, I don't want to study a language that may be overwhelmed with people fighting for jobs.
As for right now, my gutt has told me to go with C++ and so I have been trying to tudor myself and get a feel for this language before I have to make my final decision. The only response to this selection was from an instructor who sayed that C++ is a very difficult language and that it may not be good as a first choice.
In addition I haven't been able to find much information on the pay for entry level in any of the languages. Any help for these querries and any additional information would be greatly appreciated.
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| Message: |
Forget about the bandwagon effect of languages. Learn the top 3-5 and focus on good engineering & computer science. There is a lot of bad code out there - doesn't matter what language it's written in. If I'm going to read your code I want you to know about data structures that are independent of most languages. Some recruiters tend to get too wrapped up in whether you've got this or that, but that's the world we live in!
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