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The author is much too self deprecating! IMHO this isn’t the dreaded “premature optimization,” it’s avoiding pessimization. I’d like to read them in their unrestricted voice!

Great article!



Thanks! Not sure about the unrestricted voice, it might get me in trouble, though if you browse the archives there are some fairly unrestricted instances for better and for worse


Concur with OP. Either way, you're a gifted technical writer (and you know so much!).

> Not sure about the unrestricted voice, it might get me in trouble

None of your recent tweets (on teams/managers, on tests, on tooling etc) have got you in to any lasting trouble... have they? ;)


But imagine what the unrestricted version could do


Unrestricted voice?

https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

If I had just read your comment I would have thought that he was a rookie/newcomer writer.




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