> Be knowledgeable about what’s actually in the C and C++ standards
... turns out to be an extremely tall order; the 2017-11-17 working draft of the C++ standard is 1,448 pages in PDF format.
At some point, I wonder when programmers who are required to care about correctness throw up their hands and say "This language isn't reasonably human-sized for a user to know they're using it correctly." At which point the immediate next question should be "Why don't you use something else?"
(In my experience, the only sane counter-answer to that last question is "I'm programming on an architecture where the {C/C++} compiler is the only one with any real expressive power that anyone has ported to this physical system." This is an answer I understand; most other answers will raise an eyebrow from me).
... turns out to be an extremely tall order; the 2017-11-17 working draft of the C++ standard is 1,448 pages in PDF format.
At some point, I wonder when programmers who are required to care about correctness throw up their hands and say "This language isn't reasonably human-sized for a user to know they're using it correctly." At which point the immediate next question should be "Why don't you use something else?"
(In my experience, the only sane counter-answer to that last question is "I'm programming on an architecture where the {C/C++} compiler is the only one with any real expressive power that anyone has ported to this physical system." This is an answer I understand; most other answers will raise an eyebrow from me).