[throwaway_f8ed]

I will never question that he knows language and its obscurities, but real world in his case is even more different.

Scott Meyers is a C++ guy. I will bet that nowadays most of C++ programmers are in game development, HFT or other computationally expensive performance oriented areas, and there is this data-oriented design movement which goes against almost everything he ever said. There are entire constructs of language he is proficient in that are never used in real world.

[maxxxxx]

Back then I was at a C++ shop. He definitely knew how to deal with practical problems and wasn't just a language geek. This was more than 10 years ago so a lot of ideas from then are not fashionable anymore.

[blub]

Data-oriented programming is just one optimisation technique, not a revolutionary design movement.