For example, this is an ad I saw today:
This one was for a job board (job boards play this game a lot). Other common advertisers are training or college programs; and tech or biotech companies. It's a fun mix of languages and styles. Here are some recent ones:
- a for-profit college: Java
- biotech company: C++? (I think?)
- a large college: Java
- the same large college: JavaScript
- a job board: that was totally not a language. We'll be polite and say pseudocode
- another job board: JavaScript
- a technology company: Perl
The use of actual recognizable languages is surprisingly high!
It's also interesting to watch how languages change. When I first started noticing these ads four or five years ago, the language was predominantly Java or Perl. These days I see a whole lot of JavaScript. I don't necessarily think that it says anything about languages you need to know, but it sure makes a subway ride more fun!
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