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Except that even the C++ hello world uses most features of the language:

* C-like functions (main)

* headers (iostream)

* namespaces (std)

* operator overloading (<<)

* object-orientation (cout is an instance of a class that is derived from ios and ios_base)

* templates (endl is a template function)

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I don't think it's correct to characterize the C++ hello world as using object-orientation or even templates. There's no template syntax in it, for example.

It does use that one predefined object std::cout and its overloaded operator. But other than that plus namespaces, it's not using features that aren't available in C.

I disagree that it uses most features of the language, at least not in any direct or visible way. There are a lot of features it doesn't use.

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