"C++ isn't a language. It is a laboratory where some people work out ways to do poorly what other languages do well." Amen! I studied PL/I, in the University o

"C++ isn't a language. It is a laboratory where some people work out ways to do poorly what other languages do well." Amen! I studied PL/I, in the University of Maryland dialect called PL/UM, in the 70s as a student. I was very glad that it did not catch on. As C++ grew in size and complexity, I realized that it was this generation's C++ but that it had, sadly, succeeded wildly. If PL/I had been a more well known failure, perhaps the authors of C++ would have heeded it's warning. I've been programming in C for a long time. I occasionally dig up decades old code and compile it, usually just for fun. Much of the time, I just need to add a few include files, as old C was more tolerant of calling undeclared functions and such. With all of the changes to C, from K&R, to C89, to C99, to C11, it's nice that the core features have been pleasingly stable. The instability of C++ that the OP comments on is one reason I don't like C++ and I'm happy that I don't have to use it often.