Creating C++ means you're likely to know the ins and outs of the language. That's a necessary condition to being a good C++ programmer, but it's not sufficient. It's not at all obvious to me that Stroustrup would be a good C++ programmer or even a good C programmer.
Macho man! If you need to know the intricacies of an abstraction in order to use an abstraction, then it's not a very good abstraction.
Do engineers know the ins and outs of concrete and rebar? Or do they offload that knowledge onto manufacturers? But programmers can't offload anything onto the language creator or they aren't real programmers.
I'm glad for all the work the SBCL and GHC teams put onto their languages so I can use their abstractions without needing to know the ins and outs of performance optimization. Maybe one day you'll find a language you like that allows you to focus more on your problem domain and less on its traps, idiossyncrasies and inadequacies.
What? You're reading way too much into my use of the term ins and outs. I didn't say good C++ programmers must know how to implement a C++ compiler. By ins and outs I meant: the syntax, the evaluation strategy, the features and facilities provided by the language and toolsets, etc. You need to know those kinds of things to be a good programmer, and every language creator is likely to know those things about the language she created. My point was that knowing those things is necessary but not sufficient to be a good programmer.
Macho man! ... Maybe one day you'll find a language ...
Your tone is really shitty, and it's made worse by the fact that you're being shitty toward some imaginary strawman you've put in my place. For what it's worth: I greatly value good abstractions, I think appropriate high-level languages should be used whenever there's not a good reason to use low-level languages, I think leakier abstractions are shittier abstractions, I think C++ is full of the leakiest of abstractions, and I think Haskell and lisps are great. I know you're really eager to shit on others because you think you've achieved some kind of higher level consciousness, but you should probably work on your knee-jerk reactions.
