Why is C++...

...so bad? Why does it have such a bad reputation?

I'm an experienced C++ programmer and, while the language has warts, I can't understand the reason for the enormous amount of criticism against the language.

I'd like to hear the honest opinions of /prog/rammers in this regard.

>>8
I know this site. I've read it a number of times in its entirety. I agree with roughly half of the criticism Yossi proposes. He exaggerates the matter.

>>9
I agree with the fact that C++ is well complicated in comparison with C (and most other languages). But I don't think this is specially bad, nor exclusive to C++: many languages have a lot of complex concepts which aren't always easy to grasp, nor easy to express. In my opinion, C++ was intended to hoard a lot of different techniques and "programming paradigms" (I hate that expression). This will naturally yield a gigantic language, both in syntax and in concepts.