That's different from "has not attempted to avoid it".
> And in fact I think the community of developers that likes it is larger than you imagine, because Qt [...]
Please do not get me started on Qt :)
> The reason people go for printf instead of iostreams is that format strings are a lot easier to use when you need to do formatting, because the STL's formatting tools are blah.
That's not the only reason. There are for sure deeper reasons than just the arrowishness, yet I find it likely that the arrow fantasy that underlines it implied other design choices.
