Define "powerful". Do you mean expressive power? If yes, I'm calling bullshit because C++ has all of the following (off the top of my head, and I won't even men

Define "powerful". Do you mean expressive power? If yes, I'm calling bullshit because C++ has all of the following (off the top of my head, and I won't even mention any OOP-y features): 1. Templates 2. Template-based standard library 3. Lambda expressions 4. std::bind all of which make C++ much more expressive than C. In terms of performance "power", there's almost no difference. Sure, calling a virtual method is slower than calling a function in C, but you don't have to "pay" for it with performance if you don't use it. EDIT: god-dang formatting