But....why? They could've just saved themselves the trouble and said "Anyone fancy doing this in C++? No. Great, that's that tricky question off the table!" Ra

But....why? They could've just saved themselves the trouble and said "Anyone fancy doing this in C++? No. Great, that's that tricky question off the table!" Rather thna going through this ridiculous exercise of writing bad C++ in order to justify not using C++. If we really believe that this is just a way of idnetifying a revealed preference fine, but engineers should be smart enough to not need to trick thesmlves into coming to the obvious conclusion.