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Subject Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers
From Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
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All good points. I should probably blame the smallness of my company aswell.
On 6 May 2013 09:11, "Chris Angelico" <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I may rise the average pay of a Python programmer in Portugal. I have
> asked
> > for a raise back in December, and was told that it wouldn't happen before
> > this year. I have done well. I think I deserve better pay than a
> supermarket
> > employee now. I am sure that my efforts were appreciated and I will be
> > rewarded. I am being sarcastic.
> >
> > The above paragraph wouldn't be true if I programmed in perl, c++ or
> lisp.
>
> I dunno, it depends more on where you work than what you work with.
> I'm the top employee at my workplace and use C++, Pike, PHP,
> Javascript, and bash, plus ancillaries like SQL... and my salary is
> definitely on the low end. Why? Because I work for a startup. No doubt
> Google or IBM would pay their top people way more than I'm getting,
> but that's not something a little internet startup can afford. So I
> bide my time :) Some day we'll be massively profitable... some day.
> And if not, hey, I'm making enough to survive.
>
> Of course, there's the whole thing of "how easy would it be to replace
> you" too. If the only language you know is PHP, chances are you can be
> replaced by any idiot straight out of secondary skool (sorry, that's
> school_real_secondary now isn't it), but someone who speaks FORTRAN
> and knows the bank's internal systems well enough to maintain them can
> ask for whatever salary he likes and still be cheaper than finding a
> replacement. But that expert FORTRAN programmer, if he quit his job
> and went searching, would quite probably find himself at the lower end
> again if he joined a small company.
>
> ChrisA
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  Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 18:34 +0100
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    Re: Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-05 19:24 +0100
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