I tried growing a beard

...but I ended up taking my pants off too much.

Why do people use C when there's C++ anyway? C is so... unorganised.

Pah. Stale pointers lead to undefined behaviour, instead of broken type safety. It's true though that allowing memory to be collected exclusively through GC results in never having a pointer to a block that has been reassigned, however the benefits (and indeed the typesafety argument itself) are purely academic.