Who architected / designed C++'s IOStreams, and would it still be considered well-designed by today's standards? [closed]

Answer 1

(This answer is just based on my opinion)

I think that IOStreams are much more complex than their function equivalents. When I write in C++, I still use the cstdio headers for "old-style" I/O, which I find much more predictable. On a side note, (though it isn't really important; the absolute time difference is negligible) IOStreams have been proven on numerous occasions to be slower than C I/O.