# C++ C++ is an [object-obsessed](oop.md) [joke](jokes.md) language based on [C](c.md) to which it adds only [capitalist](capitalist_software.md) features and [bloat](bloat.md). Most good programmers agree that C++ is hilariously messy and also tragic in that it actually succeeded to become mainstream. As someone once said, "C++ is not an increment, it is excrement".