C/C++ as Jazz? I'm no musician, but I fail to see how a compiled language with static type-checking can be compared to a form of music known for its improvisat

C/C++ as Jazz? I'm no musician, but I fail to see how a compiled language with static type-checking can be compared to a form of music known for its improvisational style. And one minor pedantic detail - Ruby on Rails and .NET are frameworks, not languages :)