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This should be titled "How to hire a programmer with years of experience using multiple languages" simply because the advice doesn't apply to anyone outside tha
by Peroni 14y ago
This should be titled "How to hire a programmer with years of experience using multiple languages" simply because the advice doesn't apply to anyone outside that demographic. It won't apply to recent graduates and it won't apply to someone who has spent the last 10 years using .NET (for example) exclusively.
Sure, if your loose definition of a hacker is someone with diverse language experience then it applies, otherwise it's nonsense.
- RTigger 14y agoI'd argue that (and I have) - a recent grad who went outside of their coursework to learn about node.js (for example) and/or has maintained their own personal website or projects is a passionate developer and can probably learn anything you throw at them. In fact they can probably learn it better than someone who's spent 10 years in a certain language because they've just come out of a 4 year learning experience.