A proposal to improve C++ safety

The C++ of old times

When I began my voyage in the land of programming, my teacher taught my classmates and me C++. It was a really good way to start programming, since it gave me a deep undestanding of how a program is written and how computers work (thank you, Renato Conte!).
C++ at the end of the '90s was almost a C with classes. Sure, we had streams, but it lacked lists, vectors and even strings where still C's characters arrays. Without Boost libraries, programming in C++ gave little more than plain C.