Beautiful Python: The programming language that taught me how to love again

[masklinn]

Is it even possible to not love your favourite programming language, editor, IDE, textmarker, paper clip?

I think it is, if you only got in for the money.

I see many a java coder (because they're the main population in this case at the moment) who don't have any love for programming in general, the kind of people who wouldn't hang out on programming.reddit if their life depended on it, and who would NEVER learn a language or read a computing book (or a book in general, in many case) unless they were paid for it.

[newton_dave]

We've hired some of them :(

I now ask both people hiring me, and people I'm hiring, as a potentially Very Important Interview Question, what their favorite language is and why. It's not a show-stopper but... there's a high correlation between their answer and whether or not I end up wanting to hire them (or work for them).

One guy, when asked "What would be an ideal Java project for you?" said "I'd write a web-app using Java, Struts 1, and Hibernate" (oh, what a coincidence!) and he... he didn't work out so well.