> I don't agree with this. I also disagree. > C++ is a massive language that virtually nobody understand in full. A professor (expert in C++) told me that th

> I don't agree with this. I also disagree. > C++ is a massive language that virtually nobody understand in full. A professor (expert in C++) told me that there is not even a formal standard of C++. I believe C++ developers make things so complicated because C++ itself is complicated. They only know C++ and hence this is the natural way they think. They believe that C++ can solve every problem (which is true, as for almost every other language) and some of them are so arrogant to claim that C++ is above everything else and that they don't need anything else. The latter could also be true, but the problem is: Whoever knows only a hammer as a tool sees every problem as a nail :-) When you are a C++ developer but also know Lisp, Python etc. then you will write your C++ code in a different way that uses better paradigms. They are provably superior because C++ itself is learning from them and copying features, see C+11: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11 Unfortunately the horrible syntax of C++ remains. It was extended from C to C++ in such a way that it still reflects the underlying von-Neumann architecture. That makes C++ code so performant. Functional languages are not so performant because they prefer power of expression over von-Neumann compatibility. But they are catching up, see ATS in http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan...