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With great power there must also come… great responsibility – Stan Lee

C++, being as sprawling and powerful and flexible as it is, rightly gets dinged for its propensity to bite you in the ass (if you don’t fully understand a language feature you’re trying to use). Thus, many C++ programming book authors point out common “gotchas” while teaching the language to their readers.

The graphic below depicts some “watchout!” snippets from four different, popular C++ programming books. As you might surmise from the picture, my favorite word in a C++ programming book is (freakin’) “Oops!”.