At the company I work, we’re trying to find some good C programmers.
They just don’t seem to exist anymore.
There are a fair few candidates from India on visas – some of these are quite good, some not.
But where are the people born in this country with good C programming skills?
Or did they all end up working in London for a bank.
Personally, when i came out of uni I couldn’t find a job at entry to mid level doing C so I took up Java/PHP/.net/DB development job to pay the bills. 3 years later, still doing it.
Despite doing a fair amount of linux kernel hacking in C at work, I wouldn’t feel confident to take on a full-time C role any more.
I think this probably happens to a fair amount of C programmers.