C++ compilation feels like what you would experience if you could only understand a sentence by looking up each of its words, and each word was defined in a sep

C++ compilation feels like what you would experience if you could only understand a sentence by looking up each of its words, and each word was defined in a separate book, and each book was in its own shelf in an enormous room full of shelves, and one of the shelves was in a library on the other side of town, and one was in Alexandria.