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";
    }

> copied even if badly

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