I'm not convinced by this argument. It's perfectly possible to stick to a well defined subset of C++ if you're scared by certain features. Just write a coding s

I'm not convinced by this argument. It's perfectly possible to stick to a well defined subset of C++ if you're scared by certain features. Just write a coding standards document and enforce it. Operator overloading is very important for generating the fastest code possible, too. It would be hard to get the benefits of a library like Eigen which can automatically use SSE to optimize maths expressions in C.