If a compiler supports both <iostream> and <iostream.h>, the headers are subtly different.
In particular, if you include <iostream>, you get the elements of the iostream library enclosed
within the namespace
std. If you include <iostream.h>, you get those same elements at
global scope.
Getting them at global scope can lead to name conflicts—precisley the kinds of name conflicts the use of namespaces is designed to prevent.
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