Let's not confuse this with skill, though. I think ego is the reason why this has been allowed to go on for this long... The "skill" is mainly pointless memori

Let's not confuse this with skill, though. I think ego is the reason why this has been allowed to go on for this long... The "skill" is mainly pointless memorization of a bunch of idioms. I've attended C++ training with committee members that have made C++ their life... and it was quite discouraging to see that even they do: Let's try this... oh, that didn't work. Let's try this... hmm, right. I know what this is, I've seen it before. Now, it works.