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Yes, everything gets tacked on and so many ways to make obscure errors that are difficult to find. 

I'm not entirely sure I disbelieve the alleged hoax that Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ to make programming difficult and hard to ensure developers salaries stayed high. 

" Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of this little scheme, which would redress the balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers? Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10, you know, X windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics system, that it only just ran on those Sun 3/60 things. They had all the ingredients for what I wanted. A really ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and pseudo-OO structure." 

Full article here -  jokes > Stroustrup C++ 'interview' (york.ac.uk)