[mmphosis]

procedural / functional / declarative / concatenative

I would not call these alternatives, as others have commented these are all tools, no one is superior. In my opinion, C++ is a failure. I wouldn't call Object Oriented a failure. I do think OO could be way better.

[flor1s]

I've been studying about C++ lately. It has proven to be a lot harder to learn than PHP, JavaScript, Java, C# and Haskell. It's one of the most powerful and widely used languages around however, so calling it a failure seems rather unfair.