From a user's perspective it doesn't matter if it's "constraints" or "poor design". Of course it does. I'm a "user" of C++ and all three of those constraints a

From a user's perspective it doesn't matter if it's "constraints" or "poor design". Of course it does. I'm a "user" of C++ and all three of those constraints are very very important to me. There's pretty much no other language (in common use with lots of vendor support etc.) with the power of C++ that follows the same constraints. The constraints are the very reason that C++ is still so popular despite all the complexity (and seemingly an extremely hostile group of critics trying to warn everybody against using it.)