They could've just saved themselves the trouble and said "Anyone fancy doing this in C++? No. Great, that's that tricky question off the table!" Rather thna going through this ridiculous exercise of writing bad C++ in order to justify not using C++. If we really believe that this is just a way of idnetifying a revealed preference fine, but engineers should be smart enough to not need to trick thesmlves into coming to the obvious conclusion.
They could've just saved themselves the trouble and said "Anyone fancy doing this in C++? No. Great, that's that tricky question off the table!" Rather thna going through this ridiculous exercise of writing bad C++ in order to justify not using C++. If we really believe that this is just a way of idnetifying a revealed preference fine, but engineers should be smart enough to not need to trick thesmlves into coming to the obvious conclusion.