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>My own experience is that there are PLENTY of programmers who have used, say, PHP and Python, but who you wouldn't want to touch your C codebase in a pair-prog

by gems 14y ago

>My own experience is that there are PLENTY of programmers who have used, say, PHP and Python, but who you wouldn't want to touch your C codebase in a pair-programming session. There are plenty of programmers that wouldn't want to touch C to begin with, regardless of past experience. Anyway, why would you ask somebody with no experience in C to develop your C codebase? >If you've used C++ and C, then sure, you can probably jump to just about any language. Nope.

SomeCallMeTim 14y ago
>why would you ask somebody with no experience in C to develop your C codebase? The message I replied to said: >It's quite strange to me that people would identify as or look for a "[language] programmer". So what I was saying was that you would want a C programmer to develop in a C codebase. >There are plenty of programmers that wouldn't want to touch C to begin with, regardless of past experience. I wouldn't want to do a lot of original development in C myself. I have used C -- and assembly language -- to do nontrivial things in the past. But I'm ready to be done with C myself. >>If you've used C++ and C, then sure, you can probably jump to just about any language. >Nope. Umm...[citation needed].