[solidsnack9000]

I, for one, see C as both unsafe and unergonomic. The many features of C++ can be seen as various attempts to make some or another thing expressible in C -- parameterized datatypes, namespacing, encapsulated resource management -- that wasn't before.

[pjmlp]

It is, after being forced to use BCPL to finish his PhD and being used to languages like Simula, Bjarne swore he wouldn't be doing that again.

Hence why he started to design C with Classes after getting his job at AT&T.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO0PXYMVGSU

Around 29:00.