C++ has always been used, in practice, together with many C language features that should long since have been abandoned. That's just what people do. Maybe the

C++ has always been used, in practice, together with many C language features that should long since have been abandoned. That's just what people do. Maybe they shouldn't, and you don't have to, but the sociological fact is that people who want to have the advantages of C++ but leave behind the legacy of C move on to D, Go, or other languages.