<div dir="ltr">As a developer, I've noticed a shift, in the past few years, toward functional programming languages. This shift is primarily to take advantage of multiple core processors. In these languages, data is immutable, so that shared memory is not a limiting factor with processes. If you come from a ruby background, I would highly recommend you take a look at Elixir, which was, and is being developed by José Valim, a former member of the Rails core team. José's exposure to ruby shows up in Elixir, so it won't be entirely foreign to you. Also, Dave Thomas has jumped on the Elixir bandwagon and has a pretty decent book on it, too. I'm learning it myself, and so far, I like it very much. Some experience in a functional language like this might help to distinguish your résumé.<div><br></div><div>Doug Hall</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Pete Hardie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">For jobs, Java and C++ appear popular, but Java-like Scala is also rising. Python seems still something of a niche language. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Feb 2, 2017 12:40 PM, "leam hall" <<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">I've coded in a few languages and have a couple I really enjoy. However, they don't tend to fall in the "lots of jobs" or "direct tie to Linux" category. The idea I've had so far is to pick a language I really enjoy and learn things like OOP, TDD, refactoring, etc. <div><br></div><div>Not sure this is a good path though. I'm not young and am still trying to move from Linux admin to coder type of guy. </div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Leam<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-1814048851444015734m_8837241869400064943gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><a href="http://leamhall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mind on a Mission</a></div></div>
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