C is a dead end skill?

[SoupDragon]

Shockingly, I had an interview 3 weeks ago at a large Investment Bank. They now consider their C++ (and yes, I do mean C++, not C) code as legacy.

All they mandate now is Java and C#.

Time for you to re-skill.

Nomadd

Interesting... but isn't C++ still going to be used in the hardcore stuff - like grid processing etc?

[swamp]

Shockingly, I had an interview 3 weeks ago at a large Investment Bank. They now consider their C++ (and yes, I do mean C++, not C) code as legacy.

All they mandate now is Java and C#.

Time for you to re-skill.

Nomadd

On the server side C++ just doesn't make sense. Modern virtual machines running Java, C# can often outperform the equivalent compiled C++ app, with the added bonus that one little bug won't take down the whole thing.

[kingshuk]

On the server side C++ just doesn't make sense. Modern virtual machines running Java, C# can often outperform the equivalent compiled C++ app, with the added bonus that one little bug won't take down the whole thing.

Its not just speed. There are other reasons why some project will use C++ -
1) Libraries that you need to use are in C++ (for example several european exchanges still support only C++ libraries to connect to them).
2)You have existing code in C++ (saw it in several places, perfectly good system written over last 2/3/4 years in C++ - so why throw it away)
3)in house skill available in C++

[VectraMan]

with the added bonus that one little bug won't take down the whole thing.

It's amazing how many people think that.

C++ won't go away. There's more to software than web servers. C, however, ought to be dead. There's no point in doing anything in C when C++ does everything that C does but with lots of added benefits.

[swamp]

Its not just speed. There are other reasons why some project will use C++ -
1) Libraries that you need to use are in C++ (for example several european exchanges still support only C++ libraries to connect to them).
2)You have existing code in C++ (saw it in several places, perfectly good system written over last 2/3/4 years in C++ - so why throw it away)
3)in house skill available in C++

All good reasons. But still 'legacy'.

[SoupDragon]

My old client has just readvertised for C programmers... with any luck I'll be dead-ending it for a while longer yet.

[tim123]

Hi - long time no post

I am a programmer C / unix / embedded SQL (mainly oracle). This skill just seems DEAD. I can't get work in embedded programming because I have no experience of it.:

I have 20 year's experience in embedded programming and ATM I can't get work in it because the sector is completely dead

tim

[FarmerPalmer]

My old client has just readvertised for C programmers... with any luck I'll be dead-ending it for a while longer yet.

ditto. C and C++ are my bread & butter.
Current gig wanted C++, but what they have is just C with classes not C++.

[nomadd]

Current gig wanted C++, but what they have is just C with classes not C++.

Huh? How you are even declaring a class in C?

ANSI C (C89)/ISO C (C90) keywords:

* auto
* break
* case
* char
* const
* continue
* default
* do
* double
* else
* enum
* extern
* float
* for
* goto
* if
* int
* long
* register
* return
* short
* signed
* sizeof
* static
* struct
* switch
* typedef
* union
* unsigned
* void
* volatile
* while

Keywords added to ISO C (C99) (Supported only in new compilers):

* _Bool
* _Complex
* _Imaginary
* inline

Cheers,

Nomadd

[thunderlizard]

I assume the farmer's point is stylistic - it's technically C++ but it's just procedural code that happens to be wrapped in classes without much thought to OOD. Maybe.