From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,a850d20bfa8f3a85 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.205.136.10 with SMTP id ii10mr1505222bkc.7.1326272542090; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:02:22 -0800 (PST) Path: cj8ni81761bkb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!m20g2000vbf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C++ on the Down Slope? Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:23 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <1kdog45.122iy7ikvhb9zN%csampson@inetworld.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.3.40.82 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1326272535 18880 127.0.0.1 (11 Jan 2012 09:02:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m20g2000vbf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.3.40.82; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-01-11T01:00:23-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 11, 8:08=A0am, csamp...@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) 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. > Could this be an > indication that the enemy is faltering? C++ is not your enemy. If you think so, you are going nowhere. Your real enemy is every language that promises untrained coders to be successful. -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com