Aside: I'll never understand why C++ immediately implies everything needs to be classes. In fact, deep class hierarchies that I've seen in other projects muddle

Aside: I'll never understand why C++ immediately implies everything needs to be classes. In fact, deep class hierarchies that I've seen in other projects muddle the design and confuse extensibility. I much prefer a C++ lite, with stl library, interfaces instead of classes, and c++ syntax sugar + procedural programming, please.