They like its use of familiar idioms based on standard library 
containers, iterators, and algorithms. They like having errors reported by 
throwing exceptions.</p>

  </blockquote>
</blockquote>
<ul>
  <li><b>Portability between operating systems.</b><br>
&nbsp;<ul>
    <li>At the C++ syntax level, it is convenient to learn and use one interface 
    regardless of the operating system.</li>
    <li>At the semantic level, behavior of code is reasonably portable across 
    operating systems.</li>
    <li>Du