[01100011]

> attempts to remove complexity cause it to pop up somewhere else

Yes, but sometimes the average brain is better at dealing with certain types of complexity. C++, IMO, puts the complexity in the wrong places. Programming is inherently complex, but it shouldn't be any more so than it needs to be and the complexity should be of the type humans can manage, as much as possible anyway.

[steveklabnik]

I don't disagree! Well, I might disagree that they put it in the "wrong" place exactly; I think that the committee is doing the best that they can given their goals and constraints. I do not have the same goals and constraints, and therefore prefer to use other languages.