I have two guesses for why C++ garners less hatred than expected: (1) Lots of people who would have been writing C++ 5-10 years ago have moved over to Java. (

I have two guesses for why C++ garners less hatred than expected: (1) Lots of people who would have been writing C++ 5-10 years ago have moved over to Java. (2) Lots of people writing C++ are actually writing C with classes.