After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.