Enterprise Sepples

Does your project use iostream?  I always hear about iostream as the example of C⁺⁺'s bloat, do those forced to use the language actually use it?

C++0x could fix this stupid fucking debate by making writef() and readf() methods.


cout.writef("Hello, ").writef("world!").writef(endl);
cin.readf(i);

But really, how common are bitshifts in your code that you could really confuse them with stream I/O? I'm a C person, but I still find this argument inane.