> I have seen on the other hand a lot of people coming with these abstract "this is gonna be a problem" ideas in mind, and never wanting to touch C again after

> I have seen on the other hand a lot of people coming with these abstract "this is gonna be a problem" ideas in mind, and never wanting to touch C again after working on actual modern C++ projects. Well, I for one had the opposite experience. I started programming in C++, and writing, reading and debugging lots of C++ code. It was not "modern" C++, since I stopped doing so around 2006. I embraced C out of personal despair with C++, especially the C++ of other people. For my personal projects, I can still enjoy using "my" favorite subset of C++ (basically, without objects nor pointers, and building the data structures by composing stl containers). Yet, anytime I have to deal with an unknown piece of C++ it is a nightmare. Especially since it is very easy to hide the behavior of the code.