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Also why do all the job listings say C/C++? I actually know C but not C++. What happens to me?
by mrfusion 6y ago
Also why do all the job listings say C/C++? I actually know C but not C++. What happens to me?
- fgdfgddfg 6y agoYou get taught C++ on the job
- muzani 6y agoIt's not hard to train one from the other, but very hard to train a JS programmer into a C programmer.
- jki275 6y agoI suspect it's because HR doesn't know the difference. It is easier to learn C++ if you know C, but it's a good point, they're not the same languages, and have diverged greatly over the years. I would understand that back in the days of C++98, but C++11 and newer are really very different languages. Proficiency in the earlier language specs doesn't guarantee any such in the newer specs -- as I learned when I came back to dev work in C++ and had to update my skills quite a bit working in C++11 (I learned C++98 long ago and had worked exclusively in that for quite a while).
- dhosek 6y agoI remember in grad school in 2005/2006, I decided to write a little program in C++ which I hadn't touched since the 90s. The language had evolved enough that I found it to be enough of a challenge that I ended up writing the program in Perl instead.
- jki275 6y agoEven as a C++ type I still shudder when I see Perl.
- InfiniteRand 6y agoA lot of companies use both C and C++ on different projects, sometimes due to use cases and requirements, sometimes due to the preferences of the project leads, sometimes due to legacy code bases
- perl4ever 6y agoSomeone I knew claimed he used to be a C+ programmer.