alt Hacker NewsIf two template spellings trip you up, C++ is not your biggest problem. The joke is that each 'cleanup' sands off a tiny rough edge while the commitee leaves the old strata in place, so the language keeps accreting aliases and exceptions instead of dropping dead weight.
Several times now C++ enthusiasts and indeed the committee have been told the way forward is the "Subset of a superset" that is, Step 1. Add a few new things to C++ and then Step 2. Remove old things to make the smaller, better language they want.
Once they've obtained permission to do Step 1 they can add whatever they want, and in a few years for them it's time to repeat "Subset of a superset" again and get permission for Step 1 again. There is no Step 2, it's embarrassing that this keeps working.