[eyakubovich]

I don't accept that any reasonable sized shop needs to subset C++ or insanity will prevail. Any particular slice of code needs to subset the language. You may have some perf sensitive code that can't afford virtual function overhead. Or some code that uses dynamically linked libraries for which RTTI may not work right (so you avoid RTTI there). Perhaps strict determinism is required and you can't use exceptions in this part of the code base.

However this is vastly different than saying that we don't want any of these features anywhere because they might not be appropriate under some conditions. I advocate education so developers can make decisions when to use and not to use certain features (same as selecting the right algorithm -- we don't ban binary search b/c it's harder to understand than linear search).

Same with the "we have tons of programmers" argument -- let's use the lowest common denominator (everything else is "fancy"/"clever") to make sure every line of code is understandable by anyone. Encourage people to learn, not everyone else to dumb down.