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0 pointsmwdev15y ago0 comments

To me this sounds like my friends who didn't want to go to UT because it 'was too big'. The awesome thing about too big is that if you look hard enough you are almost assured of finding someone like you.

Yes there are crappy c# developers. I've also seen some bad ass c#.

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nostrademons15y ago· 2 in thread

Right, "biasing your talent pool" doesn't mean that everyone in that talent pool sucks. There are certainly some very talented C#/.NET devs.

The problem is that when you go to hire, you have very little information about just how badass a prospective dev is, unless you've worked with them before. So if you take a random dev out of the C# pool, chances are he'll be worse than a random dev in the Python pool.

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

kenjackson15y ago

So if you take a random dev out of the C# pool, chances are he'll be worse than a random dev in the Python pool.

That was probably true in 1995. But not today. Python has become the new Pascal/Java. Commonly the intro language in CS, so you have a lot of students who graduate using Python regardless of skill.

If you said Haskell, then probably. Actually C++ maybe more then either, surprisingly.

nostrademons15y ago

That's quite possibly true. It's interesting, I went looking for data and found that Python is now "more popular" (according to one index) than C#:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

It seems that wasn't the case even a year ago, though.

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