you can roll eyes at me all you want, but I've been programming in C++ for a long time. These memory access issues just don't seem to be a big problem for us in practice. That's because we wrap all raw memory manipulation in appropriate classes for our application, so it's just not an issue. I agree it could be an issue in theory.

He rolls his eyes at "hierarchies". Libraries do make the difference.

Somebody else interjected Design Patterns. You can define a design pattern as a weakness in your language's ability to express a library function to do the job.

... and with proper use of Design Patterns!