C++ Sucks

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

Not to mention the fact that there already are decent methods for unicode conversions and such on most all platforms.  Not that it shouldn't be standardized.  I think it most likely would be long standardized if we could get a C99 compliant compiler.  Supposedly then the newer standard being worked on could then be fleshed out.