The very first Hello World program anyone learning C++ will write uses the godawful iostream bitshifting operators! Not even the language's authors could help themselves eating 20 fried shrimp on the first day the buffet was open!
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The iostream bitshift overload was one of the first features of C++ that I learned to despise. I'm very happy that there's an alternative in the new version.