Discussion on: Is C still a high level language?

There's a big difference between people complaining about something and people being really mindful about knowing the options to it. Compare:

// C
char * str = "hello";
// C++
std::string str = "hello";

There are more letters to be written in C++ and you are including in your executable the full string.h header. Is that valid? Are you really using all of it? For a Desktop application, this makes no sense but for embedded systems, every byte counts.

• "You can write using namespace std; and...": No. Do not do this in your code. Check this thread at StackOverflow and do some research about it and why is considered a bad practice.

For the 'string' issue, let me suggest another approach:

// C
typedef char * string;

string str = "hello";

As an answer to people who say things like: "C is bad because it doesn't have strings!", consider asking about what they are trying to do. In general, they are complaining about scapegoats.