The thing is all people don't use C++ the same way - I've often found myself using a small amount of C++ mixed with large amounts of C written by others - my us

The thing is all people don't use C++ the same way - I've often found myself using a small amount of C++ mixed with large amounts of C written by others - my use of C++ needs to live with other's C headers, their #defines and #includes - my use of C++ is no more or less valid than your's BTW cpp is not slow, not compared with other parts of C++ compilers