I’m Matthew and I write C++. I work in finance and spend an unhealthy amount of time meandering around the standard.
Substitution Failure isn’t on a schedule. It fills up when I trip over something the language does that I can’t explain on the first attempt, which is more often than I’d like.
What is it with the rat?
That’s Keith. According to the satirical site Uncyclopedia, “the official mascot for C++ is an obese, diseased rat named Keith, whose hind leg is missing because it was blown off”. C++ has no official mascot, but anyone who has had to fight template metaprogramming compiler errors will know why Keith stuck.