Comment by motorest

> Then again Scott Meyers said he's never written a C++ program professionally.

I think you're inadvertently misrepresenting Scott Meyers' claim.

Cited from somewhere else:

> I'll begin with what many of you will find an unredeemably damning confession: I have not written production software in over 20 years, and I have never written production software in C++. Nope, not ever.

He went on to clarify that he made a living out of consultancy, not writing software. He famously retired from C++ in 2015, too.