Comment by adrian_b

While C and C++ have ugly syntaxes for "malloc", "std::shared_ptr" and the like, it is quite easy to mask that ugliness by using macros and writing thus only cleanly-looking programs, without any noise words and symbols around dynamic allocations.

In general, by using macros it is possible to transform so much a C or C++ program, that it becomes unrecognizable as C/C++ and it can mimic reasonably well any other programming language that you might fancy.

The problem is when you work in a team, because even if everyone will agree that such programming languages have great deficiencies, it would be impossible to reach a consensus about how the ideal programming language should look like, so eventually the team remains stuck with writing programs in the ugly standard manner.