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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

C++ streams are ugly in their own right, but C++ preferred practice these days is to treat it as its own language rather than as a C superset. That is, lots of crufty old C stuff still works in C++ for legacy reasons, but using it when you don't have to is considered inappropriate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, streams are old and crusty and horrific on the inside (don't ask about the time I implemented a socket layer with streams), but still less clunky than the C standard library (unless you're really into being a memory Nazi).