>"That's the difference: in C++ you get the abstractions -- just like in Java -- but you don't pay for them" That's not enterally true, you do pay for them, no

>"That's the difference: in C++ you get the abstractions -- just like in Java -- but you don't pay for them" That's not enterally true, you do pay for them, not in performance but in productivity. C++ is a complex language and even Alexandrescu touched this subject in Going Native 2013, he said something like "C++ is a language for experts"