> you pay only for what you use In assembly and C, but not C++, at least if you use exceptions: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/exceptions.html#fqa-17.1 http://yosef

> you pay only for what you use In assembly and C, but not C++, at least if you use exceptions: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/exceptions.html#fqa-17.1 http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/exceptions.html#fqa-17.1 Of course you can pare down C++ further and further, but then you have C with slightly different type-checking semantics and you might as well move to a language where 'new' isn't a reserved word.