I agree with the guy. C++ is getting better, but its early development was driven by questionable features (iostreams, ugh) and denial that the language / runt

I agree with the guy. C++ is getting better, but its early development was driven by questionable features (iostreams, ugh) and denial that the language / runtime needed some basic features, like string and buffer types that didn't suck. I've been using the language since 1987, and still have my own safe subset, augmented recently with some of the C11 stuff that's become solid in the toolchains I use. But it's still a misfeature-ridden grabfest of a language.