> hobbyist programmers give way to highly paid employees of these giants
They all learned C++ somewhere, and I doubt that most of them had access to the official ISO standard while doing it. (Yes, I'm aware of the final drafts etc)
> They all learned C++ somewhere, and I doubt that most of them had access to the official ISO standard while doing it.
There's a difference between “learning to use” and “implementing” (though having access to the standard is good for both, it's more critical for the latter.)
They all learned C++ somewhere, and I doubt that most of them had access to the official ISO standard while doing it. (Yes, I'm aware of the final drafts etc)