Application devs don't need to know the spec, but someone in the committee having a hard time of knowing the language in full is an interesting fact of how comp

Application devs don't need to know the spec, but someone in the committee having a hard time of knowing the language in full is an interesting fact of how complex the language itself is. "Why do you think that a programmer has to learn C++ by reading the standard?" If your application seg faults due to an ill type deduction caused by `auto`, why did it fail? What kind of type deductions auto covers? Experience by trial and error will hardly help you here. End user developers will acquire that knowledge probably by reading digested material from experts either focused on language tidbits or working closely to the standard (Effective C++, Effective Modern C++, blogs, etc.), the root source is still the spec, the more complex the spec is, by transitivity, the more complex is anything that comes out of it. I guess the bottomline is that we agree the language is complex and I'll leave it at that.