Word Aligned

Some valid points, but I was hoping for more meat, maybe references to what I call "dark corners" of C++. Take, for instance, writing a simple logging class that can log to multiple places and can be used in place of std::cout. The solution I initially came up with is a variation on http://wordaligned.org/articles/cpp-streambufs, with some manipulator magic thrown in to adjust severity level. Ah, but that's not good enough, you have to pull some interesting gymnastics to ensure order of IOStream initialization: http://accu.org/index.php/journals/264. And after all that, I'm still not sure it works, as looking at the data structures in a debugger looks like garbage (guess why I'm in the debugger in the first place).

All that being said, I still love C++. I'm glad I know it as well as I do so that I can (usually) avoid problems, but even then I run into compiler (or build!) dependent problems that shouldn't be happening. C++ has problems, and we need to address them. I'm happy to say that even though I am stuck with old compilers that have inscrutable template error messages, time moves on and I am aware of this problem being fixed in newer versions of compilers.