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Scott Myers' last sentence in his retirement-from-C++ page is telling:

https://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html

The top-most entry in his long-suppressed to-do list?

"Stop trying to monitor everything in the world of C++ :-)"

I.e that retirement from C++ basically was the execution of that top-most to-do entry. Being a C++ expert means constantly monitoring what is spewing from the fire hose.

By contrast, I can be a Lisp expert and improve in that by what could be described as crystalizing. Filling the interstitial spaces.




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