Worth pointing out that the iostreams library is the work of many hands, so Stroustrup is not solely to blame. I just found this old SO question which I answer

Worth pointing out that the iostreams library is the work of many hands, so Stroustrup is not solely to blame. I just found this old SO question which I answered many years ago (I am anon/Neil) which addresses this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2753060/who-architected-designed-cs-iostreams-and-would-it-still-be-considered-wel https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2753060/who-architected-...