I once read through the entire Stroustrup C++ book and figured in one case, there is absolutely no way to make this work except for a secret, hidden variable in

I once read through the entire Stroustrup C++ book and figured in one case, there is absolutely no way to make this work except for a secret, hidden variable in the class. Did a test compile and: There it was! OK, I get C++, done. Then I saw actual C++ programs. Whoa, how do you index into an array using a string? You don't of course, you overload the [ ] operator. Reading about Lua when it was newer I could foresee the same thing happening on steroids. Yes, the language itself is simple but what you can do with it - emulate almost any construct in any language - promises confusion. When it comes to readable code, sometimes "less is more" in terms of langauge features.