Alright, I probably phrased it wrong. C++ was written with specific safe guards against a number of common issues than can occur in C code, still it's more than

Alright, I probably phrased it wrong. C++ was written with specific safe guards against a number of common issues than can occur in C code, still it's more than possible to go horrifyingly wrong in C++ but the language has been designed (well, 'ish', it's still C++) to help avoid simple issues. The issues then come from the fact it's still is a fairly complex language and developers are often going to make mistakes. All languages are safe if you've written perfect code, but no one is perfect, C++ does try to catch some of the lower hanging fruit problems but if you're writing hoary code you're going to blow your foot off eventually.