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Scott Meyer one of the worlds highest regarded authors on C++ has never written a line of production C++ code. Being able to teach a skill and being good at t

• watmough 15y ago
  I'd love a cite for this. It seems really really hard to believe that Scott Meyer really hasn't got production code to his name, even as at least an occasional consultant.
  • ig1 15y ago
    http://www.artima.com/cppsource/top_cpp_books.html http://www.artima.com/cppsource/top_cpp_books.html " I have not written production software in over 20 years, and I have never written production software in C++. Nope, not ever. Furthermore, I’ve never even tried to write production software in C++, so not only am I not a real C++ developer, I’m not even a wannabe. Counterbalancing this slightly is the fact that I did write research software in C++ during my graduate school years (1985-1993), but even that was small (a few thousand lines) single-developer to-be-thrown-away-quickly stuff. And since striking out as a consultant over a dozen years ago, my C++ programming has been limited to toy “let’s see how this works” (or, sometimes, “let’s see how many compilers this breaks”) programs, typically programs that fit in a single file. (make? Who needs stinkin’ make?) My living is based on C++, but it’s not by virtue of the programs I write in it."
    • watmough 15y ago
      Good Lord. That's incredible. Of course, I know how bad most C++ programmers really are, so it's particularly hilarious what he's saying. I wonder if there's a sort of Lake Wobegone World where all the C++ programmers are good, instead of copy/pasting idiots.