who needs social life when you have broadband?

Which programming language should we learn? I wish I could say “the funniest” but the market doesn’t seem to bother about it. While waiting the checkout (from my sloooooooooooow svn repository) of my final project @ college, I went to the biggest job search engine I know and started putting some simple terms in there. Here are the results:

languages:
PHP: 12,266 jobs
Python: 7,299 jobs
C#: 34,538 jobs
C++/Cpp: 52,305 jobs
ruby: 3,493 jobs
Delphi: 1,850 jobs (starting from delphi 7, delphi IS a programming language.)
javascript: 32,330 jobs
java: 77,395 jobs (omg!)

technologies:
ajax: 13,282
hibernate: 6.324
zope: 100
plone: 43
joomla: 151
jquery: 109.
SAP: 71,937 (OMG^3)

these results reflect today’s situation (sep, 24th, 2007).

I know one might start thinking: “ok, its time to learn Java”. I would recommend you to try a less painful programming language before loosing all your love for life. And I guess C++ salaries are higher (and the combo cpp+py seems to be quite funny though… think about it!).