问题 I'm reading to brush up on C++ knowledge that is almost 2 decades old in order to understand online info on the factory pattern. The final usage context will likely be in a different 3rd generation language (3GL), but because of my past experience, I think it's easier to follow C++ than (say) Java, even though the latter may be less intricate in syntax. A bigger reason, however, is that the only code example I can find of the problem being addressed, i.e., in the absence of the factory