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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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On Jan 11, 10:10=A0am, Martin <mar...@thedowies.com> wrote:

> > > =A0 =A0 =A0According to a recent email from LinkedIn, 488,992 people =
have "C++
> > > skills" and this is an 8% decrease since last year.
>
> > Skills don't disappear. There is something wrong with this stats.
>
> People do - they leave linkedin/change jobs (engineer =3D> manager).

So you think that these stats indicate that C++ programmers become
managers.
Then:

1. Don't you think that learning C++ is a good career milestone?

2. Do you *really* think that your "enemy" is disappearing this way?

Big smiley for both questions. ;-)

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com