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

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

On 24/08/2024 19:11, Bonita Montero wrote:

Am 24.08.2024 um 00:03 schrieb John Forkosh:

I came across
      https://www.fastcompany.com/91169318/
where I was quite surprised, and very happily so,
to see C listed as #3 on its list of
      "Top 10 most common hard skills listed in 2023"
(scroll about halfway down for that list). Moreover,
C++ doesn't even make it anywhere in that top-10 list.
So is that list sensible??? I'd personally be delighted
if so, but I'm suspicious it may just be wishful thinking
on my part, and some kind of goofiness on the list's author.

 
I guess C++ is used much more often because you're multiple times
more produdtive than with C. And programming in C++ is a magnitude
less error-prone.

 
C++ incorporates most of C. So someone can write 'C++' code but can
still have most of the same problems as C.
 
Meanwhile real C++ code has several times more boilerplate than C. HTF
you can even discern your actual program amidst all that crap is beyond me.
 
There /are/ proper higher level languages than both C and C++. You can
use one to help develop a working application, then porting that part to
C is a quicker, simpler and safer process.

I recall C as originally characterized as a "portable assembly language",
as opposed to a "higher level language". And I'd agree with that
assessment, whereby I think you're barking up the wrong tree by trying
to evaluate its merits/demerits vis-a-vis higher-level languages.
Consider it with respect to its own objectives, instead.
--
John Forkosh