[stephencanon]

Besides the various "bad old programming idioms" that do not compile under C++, there are a few genuinely useful features that have only just been added to C++ more than 15 years after they appeared in C, like hexadecimal floating-point literals (in practice, many compilers supported these, but they were not formally part of the language). Designated struct initializers are another C feature that I would love to have in C++.