How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions

Re:How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Ex... by jvehent on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:52PM (#12818730)

Having worked close to a few highly skilled C/C++ developers (the author of HAProxy, core Firefox developers, people who write highly sensitive crypto code, ...), it is amusing to see them constantly doubt their knowledge of the language they master so well.

A decade and a half ago, one of my professor once told me: "You don't learn to master Linux, you learn to accept that you can't master it." Same point, different context.

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Re:How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Ex... by iaw on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:44PM (#12819370)

Their perpetual self-doubt is probably a component of their mastery. If they assumed they were right after a point they would stop learning.

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Re:How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Ex... by matwood on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:12PM (#12819642)

It's not so much doubt, but knowing enough to know there is so much you will not ever know without looking something up. C++ is a large language with a lot of dark corners. People who use it day in and day out know these dark corners exist. Even more so if they are working on a code base that many people have touched over many years.

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