[OT] C vs C++

[Araq]

On Thursday, 1 September 2022 at 09:38:48 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 August 2022 at 11:53:40 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Friday, 26 August 2022 at 21:16:20 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>>
>> I'd much rather use C++ over C. As to why C programmers don't 
>> migrate, well:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Sd8A6_fYU
>
> Good video, thanks. So, you think it's all psychology? 
> Considering we have popular political movements that can't IMO 
> be explained rationally (won't say which movements I'm thinking 
> here), potentially so. If we can be emotions-before-reason 
> about politics, it only makes sense we can be 
> emotions-before-reason about our tools.
>
> Still, I hope there are more charitable reasons. We wouldn't 
> want to declare C choosers to be fools after all.

Why not? They are fools. Most of them still struggle with the 
concept of a "boolean" type or even think it's "hard to design" 
(**cough** Walter **cough**).