Irrational fear of C++

I have an irrational fear of C++. More than once have I swayed away from useful libraries because all they offered was a C++ API. I have perused several books on C++, but they have done nothing but strengthened the feeling that C++ is too complex to reasonably handle. What to do?

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Because the signatures of those operations are different. One is a unary operator used on the object itself and one requires a right-hand side.

Overloading the multiplication operator: T operator *(const T &);
Overloading the unary dereference operator: T & operator *();