> "Jack of all trades, master of none", also applies here. Not quite; if you subscribe to the "other form" of the quote viz. “A Jack of all trades is a master

> "Jack of all trades, master of none", also applies here. Not quite; if you subscribe to the "other form" of the quote viz. “A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one” ;-) In the case of C++, the language is large and open-ended enough that you can truly express a lot more different models of computation, at different levels of abstraction thus giving you a larger design and implementation space. I think this is the main reason for the success of the language.