alt Hacker NewsI find c++ very unnatural, since it's a giant collection of small rules in the end more complex than assembler. I can't remember the entire sintaxis, zoo of function decorators, undefined behavior, intrinsics which are just labels over asm instructions, Code golf sintaxis...
A student one told me he wad struggling to get his head around C++. I advised him to stop, since success would leave his head in an unusable shape.