Quoting Bjarne

A pithy antidote to many flavors of software development Kool Aid:

"It is important to remember that a programming language is only a tool. Once you master the basic concepts of a language, such as C++, it is far more important to gain a good understanding of an application area and of the problem you are trying to solve than it is to study the minute technical details of C++."

Bjarne Stroustrup