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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That's basically your argument, right?
No. It has nothing to do with it. I don't doubt most coders could understand anonymous functions, closures, continuations, and so forth. But the thing is that they don't understand them, they don't usually gravitate to languages which exploit them, and they continually reinvent poor solutions to problems which are aided by them. Furthermore, they continue to insist on syntax which makes much of it very difficult.

Now, before you shit your pants over a lisper blathering on about syntax, I have no problem with syntax. I quite like nice syntax, actually. But because I like nice syntax, I want the syntax to be flexible, so I can bend it to my needs, when I need it---but not before. If I do it before, then the syntax could get in the way of something nice. (Metaprogramming, for example.)

Yet in 2011 if you want a job as a Visual Basic code monkey, you must know what an anonymous function is and how to use them to filter/map/reduce through your data.
2011!!!! TWO THOUSAND FUCKING ELEVEN. This is DECADES too late. C++11 finally got anonymous functions. Are you fucking kidding me?

2011. This is a point against you, my friend.