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Fully agree.

Personally I never liked straight C.

For me it was just a short transition between Turbo Pascal and C++, only to be used when required to do so. Around 1993 or so.

I devoured every book and publication about C++ I could put my hands on. Always trying to educate others how to write safe and portable C++.

Nowadays I am into JVM and .NET mostly, but when I reach for C++ it is with regard to the latest standards.

Every now and then, I still see C++ code that is basically the C subset without using any improvements of C++ over C.