I did never try Slackware...

You might be pushing me toward using it. :)

At first (before trying it) I did hate C++.

Then, after trying C++, I did hate it more because it was very badly used at the school I was (in my pretentious opinion of that time).

And then again, I got that C++ provides complex tools that you can end-up mastering to provide great APIs on top of regular, non-convoluted simple source code, which gladly help organizing complex projects, by stating things out rather than letting them implicit (and letting the programmer remember all the state he wants for its code).

By seeing clean C++ and ugly C at times, I got that the way to use the tool was more influent than the tool itself.

How is C++ evolving these days ? With systems still sticking to the oldest versions like OpenBSD and those pushing forward and all the platforms that pop out (embedded, etc...) it might be quite a puzzle !