C++

1) Why do people not like C++?
2) Is C++ a good language to learn programming? Mind you, you don't need to use any of the advanced features.

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boost::lambda is an ugly abuse of C++ mechanisms. Well, almost everything is, but lambda especially so.

To quote Yossi:

Check out the monstrous boost lambda library designed to work around the lack of closures in C++ in a desperate attempt to make higher-level functions of the kind defined at <algorithm> not entirely useless. When I tried it, gcc wouldn't compile it without -ftemplate-depth=40  (the default template nesting depth limit, 17, is not enough for this library), and I got 5 screens of error messages from a single line of code using the thing. See also this thread (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/browse_thread/thread/100dd325c6d9ef77/a4444dc5dc9d94c0), especially the part where they explain how cout << _1 << endl works but cout << "\t" << _1 << endl doesn't (to get there quick, search for "fails miserably", then continue to the reply).