Editing C++ (section)

===Philosophy===
Throughout C++'s life, its development and evolution has been guided by a set of principles:<ref name="evolving"/>

* It must be driven by actual problems and its features should be immediately useful in real world programs.
* Every feature should be implementable (with a reasonably obvious way to do so).
* Programmers should be free to pick their own programming style, and that style should be fully supported by C++.
* Allowing a useful feature is more important than preventing every possible misuse of C++.
* It should provide facilities for organizing programs into separate, well-defined parts, and provide facilities for combining separately developed parts.
* No implicit violations of the [[type system]] (but allow explicit violations; that is, those explicitly requested by the programmer).
* User-created types need to have the same support and performance as built-in types.
* Unused features should not negatively impact created executables (e.g. in lower performance).
* There should be no language beneath C++ (except [[assembly language]]).
* C++ should work alongside other existing [[programming language]]s, rather than fostering its own separate and incompatible [[programming environment]].
* If the programmer's intent is unknown, allow the programmer to specify it by providing manual control.