Re: Python linked to high salary?

> Noticed this on Jarno Virtanen's weblog today:
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> http://www.hole.fi/jajvirta/weblog/20040317T0701.html
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> Python linked to high salary?
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> Indeed so, at least according to Software Development Online's[1] Salary
> Survey 2003[2] (requires registration):
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>      Paradoxically, open-source or free-software projects are
>      associated with high salaries for both staff and management.
>      And, as it did last year, the object-oriented scripting
>      language Python shows an inexplicable link to a high salary,
>      as well. A theory that Python users might also be polyglots
>      didn't pan out: Those who mentioned the language do have an
>      array to choose from, but aren't the most multilingual of
>      the bunch.
> 
> But of course, one can only guess what's the cause here.
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> [1] http://www.sdmagazine.com/
> [2] http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=8939/sdm0311a/sdm0311a.html
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> This (the prospect of getting a higher salary) is certainly something 
> that would get more developers interested in learning Python.

Was that blog entry perhaps posted two weeks too early?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)