The problem is that you can find bad code in any language. It's difficult to tell how much that is the fault of the language, and how much is the fault of that

The problem is that you can find bad code in any language. It's difficult to tell how much that is the fault of the language, and how much is the fault of that particular author. I'm not defending C++ here, I actually agree with you, but it's difficult to provide decent evidence for its failings.