To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
Even the White House has a press agent.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.