Do you mean a small language such as C? Because I disagree completely. Whenever I use C, I always seem to find myself wishing for C++'s string class, the STL c

Do you mean a small language such as C? Because I disagree completely. Whenever I use C, I always seem to find myself wishing for C++'s string class, the STL containers and exception handling... There are libraries for C to get containers and things but C interfaces tend to be uglier (in my opinion) and it's annoying to have to use a lot of 3rd party stuff to get things that come with C++. Just because C++ has a ton of other features (many of which are pretty easy to use incorrectly if you don't know how) doesn't mean you have to use all of them.