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		chris_st on March 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yes, I am still learning Rust At my last job, we were trying to hire an expert C++ programmer, and every interview our C++ wizard would ask, "How do you rate your C++ knowledge on a scale of 1..10?" and pretty much invariably get a "8 or 9!" kind of answer. Then came the C++11 and C++14 questions, and yeah, they didn't have a clue. The guy they hired admitted that he wasn't a wizard, but said that he really wanted to become one.

young_unixer on March 12, 2020 | [–]

> "How do you rate your C++ knowledge on a scale of 1..10?" and pretty much invariably get a "8 or 9!"

I'd guess that not even the members of the standard committee really know 90% of C++.

giovannibonetti on March 12, 2020 | [–]

This self-assessment ignorance phenomenon is well documented under the name Dunning-Kruger effect [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...

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