> however the production code I get to occasionally look into proves that a large majority just doesn't care. In part, I think the issue you described is that

> however the production code I get to occasionally look into proves that a large majority just doesn't care. In part, I think the issue you described is that usually with C++, the correct solution is the more obscure one, and usually much longer and sometime even harder to parse (by a human), while the incorrect (or less correct) solution seems idiomatic and obvious. I think this would probably not have been an issue if the language shed baggage as it evolved.