[WalterBright]

> Some folks don't like iostreams

I thought it was ugly in 1987, and it hasn't improved with age. Then < > for templates made it worse.

Then there's formatted I/O:

    void IOS_precision()
    {
    cout << "\n--------------------------\n";
    cout << "Implementing ios::precision\n\n";
    cout << "Implementing ios::width";
    cout.setf(ios::fixed, ios::floatfield);
    cout.precision(2);
    cout<<3.1422;
    cout << "\n--------------------------\n";
    }

and I don't know if the problem with multithreading was resolved or not.

> copied even if badly

Any program can be written in any language. But why suffer?

[pjmlp]

That is always given as an example of how bad it is, yet I seldom have used any kind of such formatting since 1993.

iostreams hardly played a role in all C++ GUI frameworks and for object serialisation, precision flags were seldom used.