Shall Ibegin this book by confessing that many aharried day and restless night have Ipon-

dered this exact question? Though that might be abit melodramatic, stating the exact opposite

(that I’ve never even considered it) would be an outright lie. Luckily, the answer is clear. No

other high-level language offers you the same degree of control over the system. In C++, you

can specify exactly what you want to occur, make the difficult design choices along the way,

and customize general-purpose algorithms to fit your application. For this reason, C++ is the

first choice for operating system writers, game developers, and for that matter, writers of large

systems and high-performance applications everywhere. It simply allows you to do whatever

you want to do.