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<p>Is your employer aware that any good developer could easily learn Java, and that the skills universal to all languages carry over quite easily? Is he aware that somebody who could master a more difficult language like C/C++ or assembler and write well-engineered software would have no difficulty getting up to speed on writing in Java? Why doesn’t he just look for good developers period? It tells me he’s either ignorant or not that desperate. I simply do not get a lot of employers, I wonder how much they know about software engineering. I mean, these knuckleheads would turn down Donald Knuth for a Visual Basic job because he “only” knew C, or crap like that.</p>