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python will get you a job at google

I used Perl for all of my job interviews at Google, and I work at Google.

But Google is a Java and C++ company, with some Python around (but a bit of an anti-scripting culture as well).

ruby will get you a job at twitter.

I heard that twitter are moving from ruby to scala.

that was more then a year or two ago, they changed their mind in the meantime. they do have some cool software developed in scala I think.

Do you have any support for this statement? Last time I checked they moved all of the api and backend infrastructure to Scala and were quite happy with it.

I too would like to get a reference for this. It sounds interesting, but it's the first I hear of it.

perl will get you a job running the internet ;)

I'm pretty sure the companies that you mentioned know enough about recruiting that they won't hire people solely based on the languages that they know. Skills transcend programming languages; especially among those similar-enough scripting languages.