It doesn't even really mater TBH. Us developers can go from writing a simple program that executes a given math equation to writing an extremely complex game hack the next day. We are far too versatile, and even then, he probably doesn't just do those ads
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· 10 years ago
That's true. But you need more knowledge to be that versatile. And it's not that easy to find job haha. We don't know his circumstanses so..
Well, with even two or three languages, you can practically work anywhere for software. I know 5 and I'm confident that I could write just about anything I need to.
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· 10 years ago
Not everyone dominates 5 languajes. And it depends on what you want to create, you know. You can't work as a security tester* with HTML or Java for example.
* = I'm pretty sure that's not how it's called, but i don't know the translation to English of that job. I mean, security of any software, not a pen-tester
Actually, if you can learn even just one language and be very familiar with it, learning everything else is pretty simple. If you start on C# or even C++, everything else is pretty similar apart from most of the old stuff like Cobol and F#. I myself know xana, C++, C#, a little F# and VB.net. Right now, I'm working on learning Java and plan to learn HTML, CSS and JS. Granted, it would take a little bit of work to learn to test databases and programs for back doors and loop holes, but frankly, I doubt it's too tough. I haven't done that, myself, though.
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· 10 years ago
To test programs at a reasonable level of security you need to know ASM to try to find possible errors or even code exploits for them. When they give you the program, it is without the source code, just to see what can any person do just with the executable. Of course the code is tested too, but on another process
* = I'm pretty sure that's not how it's called, but i don't know the translation to English of that job. I mean, security of any software, not a pen-tester