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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 12:18:40 -0000 (UTC)
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 24/08/2024 19:11, Bonita Montero wrote:
>> Am 24.08.2024 um 00:03 schrieb John Forkosh:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I guess C++ is used much more often because you're multiple times
>> more produdtive than with C. And programming in C++ is a magnitude
>> less error-prone.
> 
> C++ incorporates most of C. So someone can write 'C++' code but can 
> still have most of the same problems as C.
> 
> Meanwhile real C++ code has several times more boilerplate than C. HTF 
> you can even discern your actual program amidst all that crap is beyond me.
> 
> There /are/ proper higher level languages than both C and C++. You can 
> use one to help develop a working application, then porting that part to 
> C is a quicker, simpler and safer process.

I recall C as originally characterized as a "portable assembly language",
as opposed to a "higher level language". And I'd agree with that
assessment, whereby I think you're barking up the wrong tree by trying
to evaluate its merits/demerits vis-a-vis higher-level languages.
Consider it with respect to its own objectives, instead.
-- 
John Forkosh