I was inspired to start using C++ when the first edition of "Effective C++" by Scott Meyers came out in 1992.

I love the changes that C++11/14/17 have brought to the language; as Bjarne Stroustrup said, the changes make C++ feel like a new language.

I take particular delight in modernizing existing C++ codebases to the new C++, and I embrace the features in the new C++ that aid in clarifying the intent of code.