Many programmers believe C++ is too complicated for its own good and preferto avoid its more obscure and confusing features.  In fact, some programmersare so fed up with the language that they will only program in Java, eventhough Java is still very immature and dog-slow.  That is not to say thatJava is necessarily a better language than C++, but rather that Java simplyhas a stronger appeal to the tired C++ programmer.C++ is an object-oriented descendent of C.  Being derived from C gave itone marvelous feature that Java lacks: the C preprocessor.  C++ programmersthat have converted to Java are banging their heads against their keyboardsbecause they do not have a true conditional compilation mechanism.  Ofcourse, the lack of enumerations is also a great pain, although tolerable tosome.