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If I'm hiring a programmer, I want them to know C and Python. C because all the low-level stuff is written in that, Python because it's simply the most useful all-around programming language at the moment, and if you don't know it, well, how devoted are you really to your craft? Various flavors of C are acceptable: Objective-C is OK with me, and C++ is a plus -- it's an order of magnitude more difficult than C to use properly, and people who can sling it properly are rare. Additional languages which carry weight with me on a resume are OCaml, Processing, and any of Common Lisp, Scheme, or Clojure. If I was hiring a digital *librarian*, I'd also expect them to know Javascript, the language at the heart of the EPUB format. But Javascript is kind of tricky; it's a subtle powerful language with bad syntax and weak libraries. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to start with. Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There are still plenty of opportunities for Cobol coders, but I > wouldn't recommend that either. Java is the COBOL of the 21st century, so if you know Java well, there will be a job in that for the next 20-30 years, I'd expect. Until the Singularity happens, anyway. I'd think there will always be lots of enterprise Java jobs around. Bill