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by 01100011 496 days ago
Wrong. Most programmers spend tremendous amounts of time reading and maintaining someone else's code. You absolutely have to keep up with it.
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Thankfully "most" C++ code was written before C++11 (good luck with programs that fully utilize "modern" C++'s constructs and their semantics, because at this point only compilers can reliably manipulate them).