Started in C 35 years ago, migrated to C++ for about 10 or 15, and now try and avoid C++ but am perfectly amenable to a little C if the situation suits. The ex

Started in C 35 years ago, migrated to C++ for about 10 or 15, and now try and avoid C++ but am perfectly amenable to a little C if the situation suits. The extreme ugliness and overhead of C++ was wearing, as was the occasional zealotry of those who knew C++ but never went through a just C phase. These days I've seen enough different languages to mostly not care that much.