This is the 'problem' with C/C++: it's not the language itself so much as the people who are allowed, or forced, to use it. Many, if not all, of the people on this list have worked with great programmers, when most programmers are average at best. I saw some terrible things back when doing technical sales support for a startup selling a graphics library with C bindings. I came away convinced that most of the 'programmers' I was training were truly clueless.

Rik