Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out. - Bjarne Stroustrup

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

Far too often, "software engineering" is neither engineering nor about software.

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.