Question on Python as career

[joy99]

On Dec 2, 6:09 pm, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:
> joy99 <subhakolkata1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Group,
>
> > I am a researcher in India's one of the premier institutes.(Indian
> > Institute of Science,Bangalore).
> > [...]
> > I have developed them either in Python2.5 and Python2.6.
>
> > After I complete my Post Doctoral which may be only 2-3 months away,
> > with this knowledge can I join IT?
> > Or Do I have to learn anything new?
>
> The short answer is, you will always need to keep learning new things.  
> Whatever set of technologies are popular today (check outhttp://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html, for
> example), will change over time.
>
> When I started out, I knew C and Fortran.  I'm amazed that C is still the
> #2 language, and Fortran isn't even on the TIOBE top 20 list any more.  17
> of the 20 didn't even exist when I started out.

That's always there. C still rules, even Python is built in C. For
good programming sense knowledge of C helps as it works still as some
kind of standard. Fortran yes lost its power but Fortran is THE
LANGUAGE for people who do high end simulation like Aviation
Technology or Supercomputing. They do not take the languages available
in the software engineering community of business development like C,C+
+,Java or even Python.

I heard recently NASA is using Python.

My query was for the more or less sizeable amount of knowledge for
developing business solutions as these fetch in our developing
countries more jobs than high end research.
In our country the scope in high end research is very limited.
20-30% you need to upgrade always be it our research, management or
programming. Sometimes even some very new technologies like SAP
overrule the market and you have to know them altogether.

Thanks for a nice answer.
Wishing you all happy day ahead,
Regards,
Subhabrata Banerjee.