Re: C++ on the Down Slope?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:50:43 -0800 (PST), Martin wrote:

> On Jan 11, 10:29�am, "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++...

I think that Java was different. It was never thought as a general purpose
language. Would-be-C people were rather opposed to it. C# managed to gain a
wider acceptance among them.

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

I group people, not languages. If you miraculously removed C++, they would
not run for Ada. If they are running from C++ now, then it is for
something worse than C++. C++ had some brighter concepts, which is why it
never managed to push C aside. There is no decline of C, I suppose.

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