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> Is this something that happens because someone thinks C/C++ is one language? Nobody thinks that. Everybody knows what it means. Picking on it is like picking
by yakubin 5y ago
> Is this something that happens because someone thinks C/C++ is one language?
Nobody thinks that. Everybody knows what it means. Picking on it is like picking on people referring to amd64 as x86.
- borodi 5y agoPeople think that. amd64 and x86 today mean the same thing, C and C++ not quite. I've also seen HR people think that java and javascript are the same thing.
- pdpi 5y agoOutside the world of people who do write C or C++, most people I talk to really do bucket the two together as if they were largely interchangeable or, at least, a lot more similar than they actually are.
- adrianmsmith 5y agoRight I mean one project I was working on who had to write some JavaScript and would always refer to that language as Java. He was a developer, literally using one of the languages, so should have known better. And Java and JavaScript have less in common than C and C++.
- yakubin 5y agoBucketing them together is fine. There are technical and organizational reasons for that. When you're working with C++, you're almost guaranteed to need to deal with C as well, so jobs for "C/C++ developers" make perfect sense. There is also a certain level of expectation that future versions of both languages keep incompatibility between one another to a bare minimum. I'd happily apply for a "C/Rust" job as well.