I'm a Python / Scheme / JavaScript programmer, and I've touched C++ once, to implement a generic list, and I spent a grand old afternoon chasing template errors

I'm a Python / Scheme / JavaScript programmer, and I've touched C++ once, to implement a generic list, and I spent a grand old afternoon chasing template errors. I think I actually got the thing to work, but it was more or less a Monkey-vs-Keyboard type situation. It was at that point that I decided that C++ was too much for my brain. Frankly I find this hilarious. It looks ideal for hard-coded config information and test data, but the reality is that this wasn't all that complex to begin with... So, one of the fun applications that I can think of for this is essentially a simple, short Scheme VM along the lines of chapter 4 of Abelson and Sussman. But yeah, I would take a long, hard look at the situation before using this for real work. But then again, I wouldn't touch C++ for real work in the first place.