Java > Scala

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, December 02, 2011 01:07:51 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote in message
> news:jb93uf$2eq5$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
> > Recently I tried to call for attention to our local team that alongside
> > JVM and .Net projects, we could tackle some C++. I even gave WinRT,
> > iPhone, Facebook's PHP->C++ compiler, Qt and Android NDK as examples.
> > 
> > The guy's response was 'Oh I though C++ was no longer relevant', and the
> > matter was closed.
> 
> Oh my god. That's genuinely disturbing to think that such enormously
> ignorant people are out there in the dev world. Our field really *has*
> turned into the fasion industry. :(

Well, if you work in a part of the software industry that hasn't used C++ in 
years, and you don't mess around with it at home, then there's a good chance 
that you're not going to be very aware of how much C++ is still used. There 
are plenty of developers who never liked C++ in the first place and so have 
stayed away from it, and there are plenty of developers who really don't do 
much with software outside of their jobs. So, it's not that hard to have 
reasonably competent developers who really don't know where C++ stands right 
now, and it's _very_ easy to have incompetent developers who have no idea 
where it stands. For the most part, I would expect good developers to at least 
be aware that C++ is still very much used in some areas, but less competent 
ones are less likely to, and even good developers don't always know everything 
that they should (though thinking that C++ is irrelevant is pretty bad).

Really, I don't find their response all that surprising. Sad yes, but not 
entirely surprising.

However, I _am_ frequently surprised at how incompetent many programmers are.

- Jonathan M Davis