Making a language more expressive at risk of making bugs less obvious is not a good thing. The goal with expressive syntax is to make code easier to read/write,

Making a language more expressive at risk of making bugs less obvious is not a good thing. The goal with expressive syntax is to make code easier to read/write, not deceive the developer. Also C++ does not have a faster runtime than C. C has hardly any run time requirements. Mainly just setting up the stack, compared to C++'s runtime requirements I don't see how anyone could claim the C++ runtime environment is faster. Anyways, my point is that C and C++ have diverged far enough these days bundling them together is not really productive nor accurate.