For as much as it seems comical, I enjoy languages like Java and C# so much because while I cut my teeth on lots of C (then C++) from the early 90's onward, once the web began to drive so much development, you needed to be able to sling strings (with first-class Unicode support) around.
When I was learning C++, a popular idiom to employ was to use it as "a better C". Don't make your own classes, but leverage good "string" impls, templates, namespaces, declaration semantics, RAII, etc, basically stuff that just your C... better.
I can appreciate good nostalgia, but I can't help but think i'd be pining for some of those betternesses that came along later.
When I was learning C++, a popular idiom to employ was to use it as "a better C". Don't make your own classes, but leverage good "string" impls, templates, namespaces, declaration semantics, RAII, etc, basically stuff that just your C... better.
I can appreciate good nostalgia, but I can't help but think i'd be pining for some of those betternesses that came along later.