People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

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

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.