"Donna" wrote:
I’ve chosen to go with PHP as a freelancer because of the ease in developing with it, but I used to work at HP as a software developer so I can tell you from experience and from what I can see from looking at high tech job boards such as dice.com, most larger companies go with something like Java (J2EE) or ASP.net. If you want a higher paying job with a larger company, then ASP.net and C# seems to be the way to go. It definitely can’t hurt having it on your resume!
I worked for SUSE in Germany back in 2001, before Novell bought them out. Python, PHP, C, and C++ were the dominant languages for software developers. I thought that was weird, since C was really the only language anyone ever used for development. I think the X server was the biggest project using C++. I can’t remember what YaST used, but I think it was mostly Python and C. I could go check, but I’m feeling lazy right now…
I forgot what my point was. :?