Sorry. I was responding mostly for this audience to the section about handling pushback. One common form of pushback I experienced was from authors who wanted a

Sorry. I was responding mostly for this audience to the section about handling pushback. One common form of pushback I experienced was from authors who wanted an exception on performance grounds. These people were almost universally mislead, so I honed a specialized skill of disabusing wayward C++ authors of naive beliefs about performance.