Why does everybody bitch so much about C++?

I'm thinking of learning it, but I'm put off by the comments.

I know C, Python, .NET, Java, some Lisp.

How can a programming language be the subject of so much hatred?

>>7
He used some bogus fundamental language constructs, but you could simulate most of that using namespaces and existing language constructs. I don't know why you would want to; after 2 or 3 namespaces, it's terrible and tedious without aliasing (which is supposed to be bad). But you could.