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Which Language To Learn?
LordStormes writes "I've been a Java/C++/PHP developer for about 6 years now. However, I'm seeing the jobs for these languages dry up, and Java in particular is worrisome with all the Oracle nonsense going on. I think it's time to pick up a new language or risk my skills fading into uselessness. I'm looking to do mostly Web-based back-end stuff. I've contemplated Perl, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Go, and several other languages, but I'll put it to you — what language makes the most sense now to get the jobs? I've deliberately omitted .NET — I have no desire to do the Microsoft languages."
Troll? Really? For not liking .NET or liking PHP et al?
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Warning : puncturing the reality bubble of slashdotters can lead to severe loss of "karma". And, let's face it, if you care about slashdot karma, you probably don't have a girlfriend.
Besides, if slashdotters want to abandon .NET ... let them ! Law of supply and demand ... blahblahblah ... more money for us !
Here ya go, grab those high paying jobs now:
http://alberta.jobs-open.ca/ab07-jo-8.php
liberals are so gullible.
When I expand the time frame, the chart reveals that in the past three years, the CAD has moved within a range from about .77 to 1.07. That's a BIG (and visually chaotic) swing. To view a short time frame is unhelpfully misleading here.
Not surprisingly, there are correlations between these (and other) currencies. But to suggest that such correlations indicate some kind of control intended to keep them at steady parity is just plain wrong, and could easily mislead one into believing there is any likeness of this situation to, say, the relationship between the US Dollar and the Chines YUAN (see chart here).
The Canadian Dollar is, in fact, NOT tied to the U.S. Dollar. (And that includes not "almost" tied too.)