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> You can write something that passes acceptance tests in C++ without a lot of effort.

True for freshman-year

    std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl
programs maybe. People's heads asplode when they get into C++ with any sophistication because they need to grasp several things at once: classes, inheritance and polymorphism, pointers (smart or not), value vs. reference types, etc. Java, JavaScript, and even Lisp go a long way toward hiding those details from the programmer.


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