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It's not, as evidenced by the C++11 process. A lot of the effort was made to simplify the language. The "complexity" if you can call it that, mostly came from increasing library features.

Are you sure what are you talking about?

C++03:
------
vector<Object*> objs = get_objects();
for (vector<Object*>::const_iterator i = v.begin(); i != v.end(); ++v)
{
cout << (*i)->toString() << endl;
}
for (vector<Object*>::iterator i = v.begin(); i != v.end(); ++v)
delete *i;


C++11:
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vector<shared_ptr<Object>> objs = get_objects();
for (auto& s : v)
{
cout << s->toString() << endl;
}

The C++11 stuff is easier to read, easier to program, does not need to deal with memory manually and is exception-safe.

Introducing range-based for loops, static type deduction, move semantics, shared pointers and a lot of interesting stuff, they simplified the language, made the libraries more efficient and they kept backwards compatibility.

Edited 2013-01-11 19:48 UTC

Did you just make code smaller than it needs to be just to make a point, as if lines matter