John Carmack and Sepples

Today, I do firmly believe that C++ is the right language for large, multi-developer projects with critical performance requirements, and Tech 5 is a lot better off for the Doom 3 experience.
--John Carmack

http://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/26560399301

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>>8
what would be left? All I can think of is references.
You are left with pointers, memory allocation and structs. Just those 3 things are very powerful and put C on a higher level of expression that could never be done with a language that doesnt have them

>>8
STL containers and type-safe generics are pretty useful.

(If you think STL containers are object-oriented, read that one interview with Stepanov.)

>>8,9
Better type safety