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.

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I think lisp is about as popular as it can be with programmers as retarded as they are. I don't mean that as a snob, right now we need a metric fucktload of retarded programmers. I'd go so far as to say the reason we have so many retarded programmers is because we've gone about creating them because we need them.

Those who need lisp's power often find a way to use one. The naughty dog dude is still using lisps, I think actually he went from hand-rolling a lisp to hacking with mzscheme last I checked. I use Racket at work, but I'm not going to start a blog about it.

I don't really care if lisp-like languages are popular. If I cared about popularity I'd use C++.