Re:Yay for C++ 0x7DB; // FTFY (Score 1)

You have to keep in mind that one of the major advantages of C++ and most likely the thing that made it a wide used language, is it's backwards compatibility with C. And that's not because C programmers had a hard time learning C++, but because there exist enormous quantities of C legacy code that would have to be completely re-written if C++ wouldn't provide this backwards compatibility. With the C++ compiler you could continue the work on these projects with the added benefit of finding a few bugs that you didn't even knew were there.

Of course, some of the monster constructs that are allowed in C++ should not be used, they are there just so your old C code compiles. That is the reason best practice books exist, so you know what features of the language to use and when.
Instead of hating on C++ (and now C++0x) because of the features it offers, maybe decide which of those feature to use and which not in your project.

Like C++ is compatible with C, C++0x is compatible with C++, so I don't see any reason why existing projects in C++ shouldn't compile. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I'm under the impression that all the C++ code-base should compile in C++0x without modifications and should work exactly the same.