Bjarne Stroustrup, author of The C++ Programming Language

I like my code to be elegant and efficient. The
logic should be straightforward to make it hard
for bugs to hide, the dependencies minimal to
ease maintenance, error handling complete
according to an articulated strategy, and per-
formance close to optimal so as not to tempt
people to make the code messy with unprinci-
pled optimizations. Clean code does one thing
well.

>>5
this. any time I try to make a readable C++ code, it just ends up being C with basic classes and maybe vector.h. if I use C++ 'features', it ends up messy. how can you fuck up templates so badly?