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0 pointsandywood14y ago0 comments

I've used C++ more than any other language, both professionally and for personal projects, for 13 years. I freely admit that C++ is complex, and it takes considerable effort to understand how to write good C++ code. Even after 13 years, I know that I do not know every rule. Nevertheless, I have been very productive with it.

I got about 3 pages into the meat of the FQA. I can't bring myself to spend the time to go further, because his counterpoints already seem overwhelmingly specious to me. This leads me to wonder on what grounds you characterize him as "the number one expert on C++" "who knows more about C++ than Stroustrup".

The best reference on C++ that I have seen remains the C++ FAQ. (http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/) I have also always enjoyed Stroustrup's guidance on his language, and I'm inclined to continue believing he knows at least as much about his own language as anybody, until I see some more convincing evidence to the contrary.

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astrodust14y ago· 2 in thread

You can pretty much Know C inside of ten years of using it professionally. I swear after twenty years of using C++ I still come across things I've never seen before, the rabbit hole very deep indeed.

Now with the new C++ there's a ton of new stuff to absorb.

kabdib14y ago

30 years in, and I still discover new things about C, every six months or so. Granted, they're usually pretty subtle.

astrodust14y ago

There's never a hope of knowing 100%, but it is reasonable to be familiar enough to know 80% with ten years of experience and 95% with twenty. By thirty if you're the kind to take knowing your toolset seriously, 99% is possible. That last 1% is the "you can't be serious" aspect of the C standard.

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