[sfrailsdev]

I'd note that SAS is still used in the public sector and enterprise to a larger degree then you'd think, just because of legacy usage. For example, the FDA had to clarify a few years ago that R was okay, because their regulations required the use of SAS5 formatted data for electronic submissions, and when I worked in a county health department, we used SAS.

Perl was also the bioinformatics golden child for a while, and I expect there are still people using it for that purpose in industry.

That said, looking beyond the public sector I'd look at Python as broadening her prospects more then anything else, just because it's more broadly used in a variety of industries, and general understanding of it is more broadly applicable.

I'd suggest she also learn enough R to import stuff and export stuff. If there are R scripts she needs to use, python can be used to script R from the command line, and she can import data, process it, and be able to export the results back into python as an intermediate step.