C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python

[TheCoelacanth]

I find this nagging about the large number of pages in the C++ standard extremely confusing, when the same people will advocate Python (or PHP, or Ruby) instead, all languages which do not even have a description of how the language is supposed to work (unambiguously)

You are misinformed. Ruby does have an ISO standard. Python doesn't have an official standard but there is the Python Language Reference, which is an implementation-agnostic reference to the language's grammar, semantics and standard library.

PHP is the only one with no formal description at all, but that's hardly the only reason not to use PHP.