[pod_krad]

>people overstate its complexity without much study/experience

The is no need in any experience to have ability to estimate C++ complexity. C++ specification is about 1500 pages.

[rramadass]

That is just silly; you don't need to read the entire specification to learn to use the language subsets productively as pointed out in my original comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278216