Actually I'm a european(Belgium) and I program in the language which
I prefer. Why you ask ... because I'm the only programming geek
at the web-development department.

They can't give a damn in what I program so long it works.
This attitude actually disturbes me. Because -ok- I program in
perl, but when I leave who's going the maintaine my ugly documented
code that I still haven't documented because of no time(well
you see I'm the only programmer while there are 3 man needed)

But when I went job-hunting in web-development in Belgium everything
you need to know is *yuck* IIS and ASP. That's why I'm going to
change from department and going to write app's for the unix-admins...
To automate some system-managment...

In my opinion I think there are a many needs for good developers and
when you are good enough you can tell what tools you want to use.

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My opinions may have changed,
but not the fact that I am right