I definitely agree with your comment about interfaces. This appears to be a concept that could be transplanted to C++, and would help quite a bit. Often in C+

I definitely agree with your comment about interfaces. This appears to be a concept that could be transplanted to C++, and would help quite a bit. Often in C++, people rely on template (compile-time polymorphism) because it is not possible to retroactively use interfaces (run-time polymorphism).