Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

Life is too long to know C++ well.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.