I can show you a lot more awful looking C code than awful looking C++ code. Edit: Well, seems you don't believe it. Take a look here: http://www.google.com/co

I can show you a lot more awful looking C code than awful looking C++ code. Edit: Well, seems you don't believe it. Take a look here: http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=lang:c%2B%2B+file:.*\.cpp http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=lang:c%... And here: http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=lang:c+file:.*\.c http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=lang:c+... Just browse a bit through both, check a few different projects. Check also some of the big projects. (Apache, GCC, glibc, Linux, LLVM, clang, WebKit, Chromium, etc.)