[groby_b]

Yes, really careful... "Oh look, another shiny feature. Let's add it!" ;)

But kidding aside - the constraints imposed on C++ during its design (C backwards compatible) combined with a desire to have every feature under the sun available has led to an overly complex beast.

Don't tell me you looked at e.g. C++ lambda functions and thought that was "good design". It gets the job done, but that's the best you can say about it.