I actually laughed out loud. Well played.<p>Taking the comparison seriously though for a moment. In my opinion the difference is that C++ isn&#x27;t just a better Cobol. Its not just the same thing re-imagined or cleaned up. There is a revolution between them. You can do things in C++ that you cant in Cobol.<p>Im waiting for that revolutionary new general purpose language that goes mainstream. I think it will be a language that scales much better and easier to hundreds of cores. Maybe it will be a functional language.