Newbie question about different languages and what they can do (mainly C++)

[superbonzo]

You can measure almost anything to get conclusive information about almost everything. Check out the faschinating field of Multivariate Statistics if you want to know more.

I wonder what do you mean by this because, read literally, it's wrong both in theory and practically ... anyway, I don't want to fire a new discussion on this, so I'll take it for good.

I would feel more confident you were right if one thousand people agreed with you.

Yeah, it's called conformism and it ruled the world from the very beginning of mankind ... personally, if I need to take a choice based on some other opinion I consider the quality of the reasoning behind his decision more important than merely counting how many people support it ... anyway, not a big deal though