And these days its also about the tools that a strongly typed well structured language enables. I can refactor many things in IntelliJ in a trice. I've heard Bj

And these days its also about the tools that a strongly typed well structured language enables. I can refactor many things in IntelliJ in a trice. I've heard Bjarne Stroustroup bemoan the fact that the C++ community "can't have nice things" like this because so much of the community still holds on to legacy kludgy practices like cpp macros.