This is why as a 20 year veteran of Windows C/C++ programmer I no longer bother applying for C/C++ software development contracts. I really don't give a stuff

This is why as a 20 year veteran of Windows C/C++ programmer I no longer bother applying for C/C++ software development contracts. I really don't give a stuff that your Boost/STL trick question is missing a semi colon, which in reality would result in pages and pages of false compiler error messages. I really don't want to try an second guess the compiler and tell you where the missing semi colon should go. I use the compiler to detect my mistakes. I read the compiler output error messages, understand the message and fix my mistakes. But I don't pretend to be a compiler. I'm a software developer. I use the tools available to me to write software.