As soon as I saw this headline, I knew there would be dozens of comments. First of all, they are both great languages, no matter what anyone tries to tell you.

As soon as I saw this headline, I knew there would be dozens of comments. First of all, they are both great languages, no matter what anyone tries to tell you. I went through this same dilemma and, while I have great respect for C, I soon realized that my situation would be more productive with C++ and its tools immediately available. For one thing, a lot of important libraries that are common in games and graphics have C++ interfaces, so if you use C you are asking of yourself to exclude some great tools out there, or, go through significant steps to wrap some of them (which would still involve some C++ anyway).