For me the main issue with C++ is the idea of no overhead for features you don't use which is not bad idea, but is complete nonsense when the measure of “overhe

For me the main issue with C++ is the idea of no overhead for features you don't use which is not bad idea, but is complete nonsense when the measure of “overhead” used by the language authors is some combination of how the hypothetical C code generated by hypothetical cfront behaves and how the resulting code would run on early 80's minicomputer...