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From: John Forkosh <forkosh@somewhere.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:09:40 -0000 (UTC)
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> John Forkosh wrote:
>> I came across
>>       https://www.fastcompany.com/91169318/
>> where I was quite surprised, and very happily so,
>> to see C listed as #3 on its list of
>>       "Top 10 most common hard skills listed in 2023"
>> (scroll about halfway down for that list). Moreover,
>> C++ doesn't even make it anywhere in that top-10 list.
>> So is that list sensible??? I'd personally be delighted
>> if so, but I'm suspicious it may just be wishful thinking
>> on my part, and some kind of goofiness on the list's author.
> 
> As far as I see, the article is about what people put on their CV's - 
> not what they /should/ put, or what potential employers want. 
> Basically, it is pretty useless - you could use it to argue that people 
> think (rightly or wrongly) that C skills are useful for getting a job, 
> or that people with C skills are regularly out of a job and needing to 
> apply for a new one.
> 
> And you can also expect that the people behind the article don't know 
> the difference between C, C++ and C#.

Yeah, I guess "C is #3" was just unlikely wishful thinking
on my part (I'm now hoping my lottery ticket is a winner).
So, is there any reasonably reliable such "Top 10" list?
If so, where? If not, where would C fall on it if it did
exist? (I'd probably guess C>10, so make that a "Top 100"
list, as needed.)
-- 
John Forkosh