[OT] C vs C++

[Dukc]

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. One could be what 
the top comment on that video says: "It wasn't the language 
itself, it was the people, and how they chose to use the 
language, and how they chose to show everyone how smart they were 
by using every possible feature of the language to its largest 
extent possible".