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>> "C/C++" on their resume make me more likely to believe they only know C++ as a kind of super-set of C and they will likely program C++ code in a very Cish st
by alok-g 13y ago
>> "C/C++" on their resume make me more likely to believe they only know C++ as a kind of super-set of C and they will likely program C++ code in a very Cish style
Could "C/C++" on the resume also not mean they see C as a subset of C++, they program C++ code in C++ish style, but also feel comfortable with C? (I understand C is not a true subset anymore, but it seems close enough to allow me to do programming in C every once-in-a-while I need to.)
- Jach 13y agoSure, it could mean that... It could also mean the person was just lazy and is actually a master of both. Actually I think the pessimistic interpretation is that they know one in terms of the other (typically whichever came first in their lives) and know neither very well... I just tend to run into more people who fall into the "pretty good with C programming and thinking style and use C++ mostly as C with classes" bucket than the "pretty good with C++ and can confidently(!?) use C" bucket. For a shaky analogy, C is to C++ as freshman algebra is to freshman calculus...