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From: Martin <martin@thedowies.com>
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Subject: Re: C++ on the Down Slope?
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On Jan 11, 10:29=A0am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:50:14 -0800 (PST), Martin wrote:
> > On Jan 11, 8:24 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> > wrote:
> >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:08:12 -0800, Charles H. Sampson wrote:
> >>> According to a recent email from LinkedIn, 488,992 people have "C++
> >>> skills" and this is an 8% decrease since last year.
>
> >> One probably should count C, C++, C#, D(?) together.
>
> > Never understood the inclusion of C# as a member of the 'C/C++'
> > family...besides the "{" & "}" syntax, the semantics seems rather
> > different...
>
> The crowd choosing C# now would likely chose C++ before. Both respond to
> the same attitude to programming.

Maybe...but there are those that moved from C->Java but you wouldn't
include them and it have curly-brackets and seems more similar to C#
than C++...

C/C++/Objective-C - I can see why they get grouped. C/C++/C# - I just
can't...

-- Martin