>There's also other smart people, like John Carmack, who have been converted from C to C++ and now prefer the later especially for working in a team environment

>There's also other smart people, like John Carmack, who have been converted from C to C++ and now prefer the later especially for working in a team environment. C++ is far from perfect, but there's also pretty strong arguments that it does still represent an improvement over C on average. Yet (almost) nobody argues that C was a mistake. Agreed. Here is Wikipedia article on criticism of C++. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_C%2B%2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_C%2B%2B The second sentence has a short list of some of the smart people who don't like it: "Among the critics have been: Robert Pike, Joshua Bloch, Linus Torvalds, Donald Knuth, Richard Stallman, and Ken Thompson". I'll leave it up to the reader to research why they criticize C++ (not C). However in the references there's a good article from Rob Pike: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...