I know that feeling. There is joy is reading a good technical manual. Enjoyment in seeing a complex system built up. How the parts support each other and intermix to produce something complex and intricate. Once you have read it all and have in your head a complete mental image of how it works, when you can open the manual to any page and not feel lost, there is additional enjoyment and sense of completeness.
I remember that feeling. I've given up on ever experiencing it with C++. Too much of C++ feels like complexity for the sake of fixing other complexity, which makes it harder to get excited about learning it. Maybe I'm just getting old.
