>>11
Of course, someone like you who is quick to pass judgement and has never actually looked into the standard I/O cannot be expected to understand it's subtle beauty. The standard I/O hierarchy (ios_base <- basic_ios <- basic_istream/ostream <- basic_iostream) is a very nice example of inheritence modelling, and the extensibility C++ provides (ie. being able to specify how I/O operates on user-defined types at the class level, providing custom i/o manipulators, etc)
>>28
You're right, Java seems to be gaining popularity today, it's quite depressing :<