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

On 17.09.2024 15:57, Tim Rentsch wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
 

On 01.09.2024 22:07, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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[...]  The most important purpose of
the ISO C standard is to be read and understood by ordinary C
developers, not just compiler writers.  [...]

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Is that part of a preamble or rationale given in the C standard?
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That target audience would surely surprise me.  Myself I've
programmed in quite some programming languages and never read a
standard document of the respective language, nor did I yet met
any programmer who have done so.  All programmer folks I know used
text books to learn and look up things and specific documentation
that comes with the compiler or interpreter products.  (This is of
course just a personal experience.)
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I've also worked a lot with standards documents in various areas
(mainly ISO and ITU-T standards but also some others). [..]

 
My comment is only about the C standard, not any other standards
documents.

Yes, that was obvious.

Are trying to say that the "C standard" is substantially different
with respect to "readability" to other standards? - In the context
of what has been said, that it's a replacement of a textbook (or at
least maybe a supplement)? - Obviously you seem to agree that it's
not, since elsethread you say "The C standard is a reference, not a
tutorial." and I agree with that; since that was actually what I
expressed (or at least tried to express; sorry, if that was unclear
to you).

[...]

 

I mean, what will a programmer get from the "C" standard that a
well written text book doesn't provide?

 
The text books being imagined here don't exist, because there is no
market for them.

I'm speaking about existing textbooks for programming languages.
(Not sure what you're reading or implying here.)

Very few developers read the C standard.

Yes, that was also my impression. (And I'm sure to know the reason;
standards are not suited for, not written for general programmers.
they, IMO obviously, have another target group.)

But the
impact and influence of those who do is much larger than the small
numbers would suggest.

What influence? (I wasn't speaking about any influence or reach.
I was just speaking about the target reader-audience of standards,
and about the role of standards and textbooks for programmers.)

Janis