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Re:The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry by conductr on Saturday February 04, 2023 @02:39AM (#34652504)
> Any work that is more than six months should be nearly language independent.

I'm not sure this is true in finance. Speed matters. A lot. It's called high frequency trading for a reason. These firms will spend a million bucks just to make their fiber optic cables 1 foot shorter.

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Re:The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry by klyrs on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:47AM (#34655792)
Just the kind of short-sighted idiocy that keeps good people out of the industry. How long does it take to get that network upgrade installed? It doesn't happen overnight. It takes me a week to get decent at a new language, a month to get good. That's, what, $10-20k on "training" assuming an output of zero in that first month? That's peanuts.
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Re:The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry by dennis_jeeves1 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:03PM (#34658256)
>I'm not sure this is true in finance.

So if it's not 6 months, how much will it take for a seasoned programmer to learn the stuff?

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