Nice syntax? C++ gurus have ascended above that a long time ago. Nice compiler error messages are the real thing now. Seriously: I feel the need to express so

Nice syntax? C++ gurus have ascended above that a long time ago. Nice compiler error messages are the real thing now. Seriously: I feel the need to express something in a concise and somewhat beautiful way to be a large part of C++ culture and partly a reason for so many people shying away from less expressive languages. Some of the Boost libraries are even centered around the whole idea and required a lot of effort (see Boost::assign).