[rosejn]

...or why types and the lack of anonymous functions combine to make a language painful, ugly, and annoying.

[systems]

C++11 does have anonymous functions

http://www.cprogramming.com/c++11/c++11-lambda-closures.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7627098/what-is-a-lambda-...

[kombine]

Types certainly don't.