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> The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous the company was. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never
by _lce0 11y ago
> The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous the company was. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by real hackers. If I had ever seen a job posting looking for Lisp hackers, I would have been really worried.
pg wrote that in 2003
nowadays, what would be the most frightening langs?
- Ygg2 11y agoScala, Rust, Haskell, JavaScript, VHDL, ASM and PHP :P If joke languages count then Brainfuck and BS[1] [1]https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programming-language-ever https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programm...
- JanneVee 11y agoIt is not the languages themselves that are scary. It is the people using them. So if the competition look for e.g. Erlang programmers and you don't for some kind of messaging app. Then you should be worried. If they use it for big files, then you should be less worried. Because they need to solve a few more limitations in Erlang/OTP to make it work well.