I generally agree, C comes in really useful in a lot of places. It's certainly the best nuts-and-bolts language. Although at the same time, I find that C++ can

I generally agree, C comes in really useful in a lot of places. It's certainly the best nuts-and-bolts language. Although at the same time, I find that C++ can be quite useful if you are disciplined in what parts of it you use. I think it's great that you get some decent data structures (Standard Template Library) out of the box.