I see what you mean but I think the point the article is making here is true: you can effectively strip most of the features of C++ and end up with something wi

I see what you mean but I think the point the article is making here is true: you can effectively strip most of the features of C++ and end up with something with a footprint and runtime cost almost identical to C. You can effectively port almost any C program to C++ by making purely syntactical changes that won't have any impact on the execution.