I completely agree. One really annoying thing I hear quite often is that a language is just a tool. But that's wrong. The language is the building material. The

I completely agree. One really annoying thing I hear quite often is that a language is just a tool. But that's wrong. The language is the building material. The language isn't the hammer, it's the wood, and it's the nails. If you inherit a Java program, you can't just use C++ to work on it. You will have to edit Java source code.