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.

>>147
Well, I've a bunch of code, that looks like following:

(let ((var (expr)))
  (if (eq var :fail)
      (fail-expr var)
      (progn ...)))
I'll define a macro `try`:

(try (expr) (fail-expr it)
  ...)


How would you solve that?