C++ is somewhat notorious its developers' practice of selecting different subsets of C++ as "the good bits". I think one of the biggest mistakes of C++ was conflating the three different concerns of record types, polymorphism, and encapsulation. All three are bundled up in the catch-all "class", and everyone comes up with their own workarounds which should have been language constructs to begin with. So you'll end up with a language which enforces your C++ style.

The good bits everyone agrees on are parts like <algorithm>, and oh man, I have a hard time imagining how you'd make that easy to follow.