I love C++, but I upvoted this because most C vs. C++ rants focus on things that are not actually C++'s biggest problems. This is one of the few C++ rants that

I love C++, but I upvoted this because most C vs. C++ rants focus on things that are not actually C++'s biggest problems. This is one of the few C++ rants that actually brings up of legitimate points. They are not reasons that would stop me personally from preferring C++ over C, but they are valid criticisms. P.S. On the subject of format strings vs. cout and the "<<" madness, C++0x's variadic templates will allow a type-safe printf. So hopefully in the future we WILL see C++ move back toward format strings, but without loosing the type safety. It also gives the possibility of instead of having to remember to use %d for ints and %f for floats, we could just use format strings that use {1}, {2}, etc. as format string placeholders, the way C# does. Freeing you from having to specify in the format string what the type is is something C++0x type-safe-printf would allow you to do that you could never do in C.