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Thanks for your thoughts! I can see your point. I think mainly I was trying to get away without having to do training, but clearly that isn't working out so wel

• alexgartrell 15y ago
  If I had to choose I'd probably say C or Python, but language wasn't a very strong influence on my job choice (other than knowing that I wanted to avoid Java). That Fog Creek has done well with Wasabi [1] says to me that language is not the most important thing for most candidates. [1] http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-origin-of-wasabi/ http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-origin-of-wasabi/
• d0m 15y ago
  When you say "having to do training".. A great programmer don't need "you" to do the training. Just give him/her a couple of days to read your codebase and learn the language. Anyway, even if it was the best PHP programmer, you'd still have to walk through your architecture and important design decision. So, at this high level, it's not important at all whether the guy/girl understand the inner details of PHP. And, might I add, PHP is so easy to understand and read.. You don't even have to know PHP to read the majority of code written in it ;-) Compare that to, say, haskell or scheme, where it's a whole new paradigm. This is a crucial blunder from all no-tech people I know who are trying to hire great programmers. Seek Great Programmers, not Great "insert a language" Programmer! A good programmer will be good in any languages; a bad one will be bad in all languages.