Comment MUMPS! (Score 2, Funny) 537
"having the expertise required in a single language to land a good job"
If, first and foremost, you are concerned about landing a programming job, it helps to know what industry you're looking to enter. Healthcare and Electronic Medical Records are hot topics right now with a lot of money, private and public, backing it. IT adoption in Healthcare is seen as a panacea for all that ails, and while I may not agree with that directly, there is certainly a lack of trained programmers willing to work in the field. Most EMRs are decades old and use MUMPS as the back end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
It's quirky, "old" and not OO, but if it's a JOB you want, there's worse things out there than helping deliver better care through M programming.
If, first and foremost, you are concerned about landing a programming job, it helps to know what industry you're looking to enter. Healthcare and Electronic Medical Records are hot topics right now with a lot of money, private and public, backing it. IT adoption in Healthcare is seen as a panacea for all that ails, and while I may not agree with that directly, there is certainly a lack of trained programmers willing to work in the field. Most EMRs are decades old and use MUMPS as the back end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
It's quirky, "old" and not OO, but if it's a JOB you want, there's worse things out there than helping deliver better care through M programming.