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by IceDane 2106 days ago
My 2 cents: anyone selling themselves as an X programmer would immediately lose points as far as I'm concerned if I were hiring. Programming languages are tools. Being a C programmer is like being a hammer woodworker. It makes no sense.
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I have seen C++ programmers jump from HFT to image processing to video compression and then to embedded systems.

They were completely different domains.