Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On 27/08/2024 10:11, Bonita Montero wrote:

C++ is a lanugage which addresses the lowest level as well as medium
abstactions. I like to combine both.

 Your view of lowest probably differs from mine.
 Once upon a time I had to write a BIOS for a computer from scratch.
 You turn it on, and it starts executing code. OK, you can be sure you have a ROM and a processor. Have you got any RAM? Best to be sure it's functioning OK before you start using it. I'll just call this test function and ... oh. Well, I can put the return address in SP, we're not using that yet.
 That code had to be written in assembler. No other language gives you sufficient control. And it was actually quite fun doing it!
 ANdy