Well, because geniuses who were too smart for their own good turned every problem into an academic exercise, writing "elegant" code using the darkest corners of

Well, because geniuses who were too smart for their own good turned every problem into an academic exercise, writing "elegant" code using the darkest corners of the vast language that is C++. And then we hate the language and not these characters. Scala has the same problem. Stop writing your own DSLs!