I would have to agree. I have no doubt that anyone in the early days of C++ probably had a real bad experience and was right to tell people not to use it at th

I would have to agree. I have no doubt that anyone in the early days of C++ probably had a real bad experience and was right to tell people not to use it at that time. I personally still use C++ because of the libraries and tools. With Boost, Qt, WebKit, valgrind, gdb, and others I am simply too productive in C++. If someone told me I could only use the c++ standard library and no other libraries I could probably switch languages pretty quick. I can only imagine what it must have been like before when you got nothing.