One thing that comes to mind is that young people today are weaned on oo languages and may find it hard to adopt the good old-fashioned non-oo style typical for

One thing that comes to mind is that young people today are weaned on oo languages and may find it hard to adopt the good old-fashioned non-oo style typical for C. For example, intrusive data structures may seem like an anti-pattern to oo programmers, while they feel perfectly ok for a C programmer. On the contrary, C programmer may find non-intrusive data structures to be an anti-pattern as they require extra memory allocations.