Before you chime in with some snarky comment about some superficial aspect of the language (like, say, the name), please try to realize that C++ is still one of the most widely-used languages in the world -- for a reason. And if you find yourself about to post something of the form "why would they add [feature X]...python/ruby/haskell/blub has had that for years", please stop and take a deep breath. Realize that it takes a long time to add features to a language that has to be standardized by committee and deployed to as many platforms as C++ has today.
You may like ruby/python/blub better, but that's a bit like saying "I like my swiss army knife better than my chainsaw". Your swiss army knife will do fine in a lot of different situations, but you're not going to cut down many trees with it. Nor would you try to open a package with a chainsaw.