Wow - Ok this is going to be new.
Welcome to the world of programming mate
Only backing myself up here, I, being 22 years old, have 13 years of c++ experience. Granted only 4 of those are object oriented, which was taught in college and unfortunately we never learned the -> operator. Just showing where that previous statement came from.
So? I'm 21 years old and have way less C++ experience. Do you really want to start this pissing contest now?
Truth be told, if you worked with C++ for 13 years and only figured out that you can use OOP after 9 of them, you did something substantially wrong. Either you didn't know the language (which is still my bet), or you deliberately ignored one of the core idioms the language has to offer. If you never heard about the -> operator, well, I'm sorry, but then you haven't worked with C++. Heck, it's overloaded in most std::iterator<> subclasses and definitely in the ones provided by all significant containers in the STL.
Sorry, but someone who doesn't know the core language idioms, doesn't know the language.