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> “Data structure”. No, it’s a class. Although it inherits from C several kinds of user defined type, C++ chooses to neuter all of them so that in practice any real user defined type "is a class". One of the many cringey Herb Sutter (IIRC) stunts at CppCon was singing "all you need is class" to the tune of the Beatles' "All you need is love". But crucially here what we're talking about is the choice to define the con…
“Code module” is a generic phrase used in many programming languages, not just C++. Your pedantry over what is an extremely useful and highly productive language, for which there is ample evidence of actual utility, belies a feeble attempt to justify what I believe is your fundamental failure to have actually shipped products in any language, whatsoever. Not just C++. I doubt you ship anything at all, given your proc…
If you consider "People who use Free Software" to be users you can doubtless add a dozen more languages, including (which was a surprise to me 25+ years later) Scheme apparently, but most recently only Rust because that's what I'd prefer to write. If you've used Rust's compiler, a tiny portion of that was written by me.