> Kudos to his manager for actually looking at the code and recognizing the problem. Huh? > My manager looked at the code and asked "Who's going to maintain t

> Kudos to his manager for actually looking at the code and recognizing the problem. Huh? > My manager looked at the code and asked "Who's going to maintain this? How will they understand it?" That's not the first time I've encountered these questions. I heard it when I used function pointers in C. I heard it when I used templates in C++. So essentially the manager bans the use of basic language features because they have hired incompetent programmers who shouldn't be working in the languages before understanding them. How exactly did the manager "recognize the problem"? The problem isn't that people use languages like they are supposed to be used, it's that they have made bad hires, which is not the competent programmers fault.