> Are we forever going to be stuck with every company trying to reduce complexity by defining their own custom subset of C++? The problem with doing this is th

> Are we forever going to be stuck with every company trying to reduce complexity by defining their own custom subset of C++? The problem with doing this is the same as with the idea that one "90% of people only use 10% of Excel's features" so we should be able to make a simpler Excel and capture 90% of the market: all those people use a different 10% subset. It's the same with C++; everyone wants a "simpler" language, but no one agrees on what should be kept and what should be thrown out. C++ is the language that results from putting together everything that everyone needs (and then dealing with the resulting conflicts and contradictions).