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Manfred <noname@add.invalid> writes:

> [...] if you are programming in the common subset of C
> and C++, then you are effectively programming in C, aren't you?

In my experience programming in the common subset of C and C++ is
much more like programming in an annoyingly braindamaged subset of C
than it is like programming in C.

> I mean, practically:  with respect to C, you are excluding at most 5%
> of the language;  [...]

Unfortunately excluding 5% of the language ends up excluding 95+% of
the programs (and probably more for programs of any reasonable size).
I think no C programmer naturally writes C programs that fall into
the common subset of C and C++, except by accident, and that happens
only rarely, and in small programs.