FAA requirements are 40 hours to get your private license, but it typically takes around 60-80 hours, and the most commonly quoted approximate price I've always heard is about $10,000 for everything: ground school, flight training, materials, etc.
C++ is used today in any field that requires performance, like Gaming for instance. C++ is also very reliable and is the prime choice for embedded systems, which must be reliable to work and not cause exceptions. C++ can be used to create virtual...
Here is my point of view on this: 1  Although C++ was not intended to have static constructors in the beginning, it is still interesting to have the possibility to extend the language to work in the same way as Java and C#, as it is the free will of the programmer to use that or not.