Therein lies its strength. It filters out both those too weak and those who want to appear smarter than they are. The first group just never can get anything do

Therein lies its strength. It filters out both those too weak and those who want to appear smarter than they are. The first group just never can get anything done in C++, the second writes code they can't understand themselves 3 months after they wrote it, so it either ends up in Boost or nobody uses it.