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by rhacker 1806 days ago
Well just a total guess but since it has a tiny bit more OO than C (traits) it could be argued it has a slightly better (aka more clearly obvious) ability to have plugins which is definitely possible in C, but it means you can pass a thing around that can do certain things for you, whereas in C there's a lot of crufty stuff to do that.
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> whereas in C there's a lot of crufty stuff to do that.

Which is true.. but owing mostly to the fact that C actually has a stable ABI.