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Is it really? Got no exposure to C++ but the rabbit hole goes pretty deep with Haskell.

• danharaj 7y ago
  Computation is a rabbit hole, there is no end to its depth. Comparing the definition of C++ to Haskell, one will see that there's orders of magnitude more incidental complexity in the former than the latter. Every professional Haskeller I've spoken to who previously did professional C++ has emphatically agreed.
• lallysingh 7y ago
  Oh yes it is. I've done both for a long time (C++ since early 1990s, have known committee members, written a lang proposal, Haskell since '07). The difference is that the C++ complexity is mostly from fitting abstraction into the legacy compat/efficiency constraints, while on Haskell it's learning more math/theory.