>> But it's not a requirement to know all of C++ to write C++.
You just need to know as much as everyone else on your team and all of the libraries that you are using.
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out". Yes, that quote can be found on page 207 of The Design and Evolution of C++. And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#. The quote occurs in a section entitled "Beyond Files and Syntax". I was pointing out that the C++ semantics is much cleaner than its syntax. I was thinking of programming styles, libraries and programming environments that emphasized the cleaner and more effective practices over archaic uses focused on the low-level aspects of C." Source: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html#:~:text=%22Within%20C....
The question is then, "which 'cleaner and more effective practices' are being used in the code you write and maintain?"
Only someone who knows too little about C++ would say something like that. Different features can interact in subtle and unexpected ways and that can bite you at runtime without any warning at compile time.
You just need to know as much as everyone else on your team and all of the libraries that you are using.
"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out". Yes, that quote can be found on page 207 of The Design and Evolution of C++. And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#. The quote occurs in a section entitled "Beyond Files and Syntax". I was pointing out that the C++ semantics is much cleaner than its syntax. I was thinking of programming styles, libraries and programming environments that emphasized the cleaner and more effective practices over archaic uses focused on the low-level aspects of C." Source: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html#:~:text=%22Within%20C....
The question is then, "which 'cleaner and more effective practices' are being used in the code you write and maintain?"