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On 12/19/2017 1:28 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> I thought it was annoying and pointless to learn Spanish when I
> already know English, yet we keep learning new languages for
> programming, some of which seem tedious pointless and redundant.
> Powershell doesn't do anything I would need to do which I haven't
> already done in vbscript?  Java can do everything PHP can do?

There is a big difference between "able to do X" and "good choice
for X".

But in many cases there are multiple good options.

>                                                           I feel
> like they need a flowchart to show you which language to use based on
> what it does differently and/or better than any other language.

It would become a very complex flowchart.

> We get the revolutionary changes, going from Assembler to C, from
> JCL/COBOL/DB2 to Java/SQL.  Now I couldn't even guess how many
> languages there are, seems like thousands.

Actually used is probably less than 100.

>                                           You could pick 5 and feel
> like that's all any company should ever need and the next job ad will
> have one you missed.  It's like imagine if it were spoken language
> roulette.  You bother to learn English, Spanish, French, German,
> Russian, and Chinese.  Then apply for interpreter jobs that are like
> sorry we needed someone who knows English, French, Russian, and
> Korean.

If you know 5+ actual used languages that cover a spectrum of
language types well, then you should be OK job wise.

You will have skills for a big fraction of posted jobs.

And you will have demonstrated an ability to learn new
languages and new paradigms that should make a smart
hiring manager take you even if you need to learn
a language.

Arne

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