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> IMHO you both go off the opposite ends: No, a generic "developer" isn't badly educated if they don't know C++, but that doesn't mean C++ is some irrelevant language. It's critical for some domains of computing, and widely used.

I never said it was irrelevant, I said it wasn't the mainstream it was in the early 90s. See my post above:

> while still useful for some specific applications, C++ is not a mainstream language anymore.

So are on the same line you and I :

> a generic "developer" isn't badly educated if they don't know C++




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