On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 12:47 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > Try to hire a C++ developer under 30 some time.
Should have marked this as off-topic some time ago. My apologies. Any good programmer should be able to adapt to any language given him. Thus you shouldn't be looking for "C++ developers" per se, but excellent programmers. Conversely when someone says they want to "hire a Java Programmer" there are literal 10s of thousands of people who might qualify for that, but not all of them are good programmers by any stretch of the imagination (and this is not because of Java itself). Just recently I received a job offer (well more of a cajole :) for some heavy C++ programming. And I believe quite a few employees at this company are under 30. We've been through this before. The consensus was that much more vertical market and in-house code is written than software that is actually released for consumers. And of that software, yes, Java is used more than any other language. But of the software that is visible, that consumers work with everyday, C++ still is very widely used. And just because CS graduates know C++ less and less doesn't mean they won't have to use it at some point in their careers. > > -Jonathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
