You are absolutely correct. A good programmer with zero experience in a platform, is a better hire than an average programmer with 10 years of experience in a

You are absolutely correct. A good programmer with zero experience in a platform, is a better hire than an average programmer with 10 years of experience in a platform. HOWEVER, the job market does not know this AT ALL and ONLY hires on the basis of platform experience. Actual managers of programmers may understand, but their HR department incompetency filter is ONLY going on the basis of keywords in the resumes. It's terrible. If you create a resume with the right keywords[1], in the most desirable techs, and put it up on job boards on Monday, you will get hits on Tuesday, even if your prior job title was "Senior Child Rapist" and your previous employer was the Penn State Football Program.[2] . [1]And they have to match precisely. I was recently told I could not be an Oracle Linux sysadmin, since I only had experience in CENTOS and Red Hat EL. (They are all identical.) [2]no disrespect PSUers, I just needed a funny example