"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.