Hmm, I found some of the criticism unfair. E.g. the example with "baz = foo->bar(3);". Yes, "bar" could be a number of things here, but that's why variable naming conventions help.

The point about operator overloading is accepted, but this is not too different from what happens with metaprogramming in Ruby or say macros in lisp.

Even python has some quirks. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132941/least-astonishmen...