I remember beginning to learn C++ as a teenage game modder and loving it, but now that I'm older and have been exposed to the other facets of the language, my a

I remember beginning to learn C++ as a teenage game modder and loving it, but now that I'm older and have been exposed to the other facets of the language, my appreciation for plain old ANSI C and its interop has grown beyond my love for the former. There's just too much shit going on in C++. It's an example of a language where not enough people said "no". You can always add, but it's so very difficult to take away.