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Why does every Jobserve ad want C++ or Java

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    Why does every Jobserve ad want C++ or Java

    It looks like almost all the jobserve ads showing up for "perl python" are for financials, and they all seem to want C++ and/or Java

    I'm wondering if I shouldn't have learned Java instead of python, which I'm currently studying and practicing.
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    #2
    Try more mainstream languages like "Plan" or "S3"

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      #3
      Originally posted by Churchill View Post
      Try more mainstream languages like "Plan" or "S3"
      RPG400.
      ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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        #4
        Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
        RPG400.
        Too modern.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Churchill View Post
          Try more mainstream languages like "Plan" or "S3"
          Which birthday did you say you have just had?
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            #6
            Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
            RPG400.
            Good grief, is that still going?

            Last time I used RPG 2, which it looks like a variant of, was in about 1980.
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              #7
              Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
              Which birthday did you say you have just had?

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                #8
                Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                Good grief, is that still going?

                Last time I used RPG 2, which it looks like a variant of, was in about 1980.
                http://www.jobserve.co.uk/JobListing...F4F50E13F749C0

                Apparently. Though my particular niche seems to be on the wane a bit.
                ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post

                  http://www.jobserve.co.uk/JobListing...F4F50E13F749C0

                  Apparently. Though my particular niche seems to be on the wane a bit.
                  There's something terribly wrong here.

                  That listing shows about ten times as many contracts (all different, at a cursory glance) for a creaky old punched card language like RPG400 than for perl and python combined.
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                    #10
                    Why the hell did you think a beardy obscure language like Python was going to get you a contract.

                    C/C++
                    Java
                    C#

                    Are the bread and butter of contracting as a coder.

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