Things Ruby isn't concerned with that people typically have problems with in C++: - No compiling or linking phase in Ruby. Linking problems can be hairy in la

Things Ruby isn't concerned with that people typically have problems with in C++: - No compiling or linking phase in Ruby. Linking problems can be hairy in large systems. - Header file hell - The static keyword (there are four different contexts) - Difference between a pointer and reference - public, private, protected inheritance - Differences between dispatch (and underlying impl) of virtual and nonvirtual methods - method hiding - diamond of death - visibility vs accessibility - casting idioms (static, dynamic, const, reinterpret) - ugly libraries (STL, ATL, MFC, COM) yeah, i said STL is ugly. - templates (Ruby doesn't need templates since everything is dynamic) - No language level string data type (our product has at least six representations of strings here and there that need to be converted at the bit level).