Not even briefly, I'd say. Cfront-based compilers were the rule rather than the exception well into the 1990's. It wasn't until the death of proprietary Unix and the emergence of msvc and gcc that the world got used to the idea of C++ being a first class language.
So C++ had existed for 10+ years by the time you started with it, right?
I was still having to deal with Cfront-based compilers (the one on HP-UX, for example) in 2002 or so. Amusingly enough, it actually had really good error messages.
