Oh, I agree, and we're actually talking about the same thing. We're just defining the word culture with different scopes. My scope was, approximately, "anything

Oh, I agree, and we're actually talking about the same thing. We're just defining the word culture with different scopes. My scope was, approximately, "anything about C++ that you really need to know to write idiomatic C++ code and interact productively with your C++ coworkers and community, but which you didn't learn from that Introduction to C++ for Lisp Nerds book that you skimmed last weekend." Clearly not a hard-and-fast definition. The more "proper" scope of the word culture is, of course, ultimately a giant philosophical issue which I intend to blithely handwave away. ;) (I suppose one could try to argue that all of C++ is a cultural artifact, and C and assembly for that matter, but sooner or later you'll reach the Turing machine, which if you chip away at it you'll soon discover is just the tip of an iceberg which consists of all of mathematics, and then folks like Plato will turn up on the battlefield looking for a fight and holy cow, look at the time, gotta run.)