The question you should ask yourself is - what other languages I do know to compare C++ to? Do you know about hygienic macros in scheme? Standard ML parametric

The question you should ask yourself is - what other languages I do know to compare C++ to? Do you know about hygienic macros in scheme? Standard ML parametric polymorphism? Haskell type classes? But even more mundane stuff like D's templates? Code-generation and reflection in C# (not to mention generics)? Scala's generics and parametric polymorphism?