When I was just starting programming, I was taught that if you use printf, it's not real C++. Over the years that followed, I slowly learned about all the trade

When I was just starting programming, I was taught that if you use printf, it's not real C++. Over the years that followed, I slowly learned about all the trade-offs involved with iostreams, and I became increasingly distrustful of complaints that were not about specific problems, but just that similar code would be possible in C.