[wudangmonk]

If he doesn't use C++ features then there's no point of bothering with C++ at all. C++ is kinda but not really a superset of C. There are some nice features that are lacking in C++.

The fixie example wants to make the comparison that using C instead of C++ is deliverately done just to brag about doing something in a way that is more difficult than in should be. In reality the issue is that C++ might not offer you any benefit at all and it could potentially bring you issues later on for things such as interfacing with other languages.

I personally do not see the point of using C++ if you do not use any of its features.

[direwolf20]

Usually you start with just one feature, like std::map instead of OpenSSL's abomination of a hashmap library or rolling your own.

Of course you should use std::unordered_map instead of std::map because the latter is actually a treemap, but you probably don't know that when you first learn it...

[its_magic]

Nah, I prefer to just use C, because at least I can parse the quite sane and helpful error diagnostics when I omit a semicolon or something, instead of getting 15 pages of unreadable garbage dumped into my lap by the oh-so-wonderful C++ standard library.

(Which quite frankly isn't much of a "standard" when there's about a dozen different real world interpretations of the code depending on which flavor of which compiler from which year that you're using.)

I also don't have to wait eons for my code to compile. Really, the mental and computational load of C has got to be 1/10 of C++.

What a nightmare C++ is, and it just keeps getting worse every year thanks to the incompetent standards committee.