I agree
To make a thousand line program in PB would most probably end up about ten thousand lines in C++.
Not too sure on that but when I played around with C++ I got to about 500 lines and ended up with a basic window with a few gadgets that did hardly anything and gave up.
The same amount of code took less than a hundred lines in PB and made a working program.
But still I am not much of a C++ programmer though, and never will be.