Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 07:40:02 -0500 Return-Path: Sender: lang-cpp-request@vandevoorde.com Approved: c.l.c.m@bazarov.com Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated From: Bo Persson Subject: Re: What kinds of applications need C++ developers? Organization: unknown References: <01c5af1f-c13f-41bb-b8e4-b101b01caa37@googlegroups.com> <5566387e$0$23189$e4fe514c@dreader34.news.xs4all.nl> <3801ca01-9b53-4399-b8b2-51a04be4077c@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-Original-Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 12:03:23 +0200 X-Submission-Address: lang-cpp-submit@vandevoorde.com Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 07:39:44 CST Lines: 28 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-3gJVSL1qSj2OIaaTVfGNwrS1Hte4iqwg1yjOK8m40hQ6AG6koRhw2OD+OT9E0/Qz8KhtpwiEzFZ8QTH!QtFTIUshvv5D1UYTfvSYIZHxjqwZV7K1+gatzjjbIWyZBukPdcqshxb5wBY= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2333 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++.moderated:7271 On 2015-05-29 20:24, Martin Bonner wrote: > > On Friday, 29 May 2015 16:50:13 UTC+1, Francis Glassborow wrote: >> It is a mistake to judge the activity in a language based on public >> visibility (books, job adverts etc.) > > On the other hand looking at job adverts is a pretty good way of judging > how much demand there is for programmers skilled in the language. (I'm > not disagreeing, just pointing out that there more than one question > people might want to ask, and it's quite likely those questions will have > different answers.) > > With some exceptions. Old geezers writing Cobol (billions of lines per year) already have jobs and don't read ads, so they have to be head hunted instead. Low number of ads doesn't have to mean that the demand is low. -- [ See http://www.gotw.ca/resources/clcm.htm for info about ] [ comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: Do this! ]