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.

>>78
Okay, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
Expert programmers are programmers with good experience,...
... they were proposed along the years by some expert programmers.
I mean, people with good experience naturally avoided common problems and started better designs. Some of these practices were just collected by these authors, so they can't take full credit for this “awesome” TR1.

specific “tastes”.
I consider any individual opinions as a matter of taste. When a group of people has the same taste, then this makes a pattern that could evolve to a future standard taste.

For example, S-expressions in Lisp.
“... a community of S-expression Lisp programmers quickly developed. M-expressions fell into neglect, and were never implemented.” -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression