> every single item in C++ was wanted and championed by someone
This is irrelevant to the point I made in the text you quoted.
> Well, C did turn into C++. The entity that gave forth C++ is C.
My mother didn't turn into me. She just gave rise to me. She's still alive and well.
My point, which seems to have completely escaped you, is that C itself should not turn into C++, so claims that any attempt at all ever to improve C with the addition of a single constraint mechanism for managing pointer size safely is a slipper slope to duplicating what C++ has become, leaving no non-C++ C language in its wake -- well, such claims seem unlikely to be an unavoidable Truth.
> A good way to have a C++ with fewer features would be to trim from C++ rather than add to C.
Again, my point is not easily crammed into the round hole of your idea of how things worked. It is, instead, that C can have a few more safety features without becoming "C++ with fewer features".
I feel like you didn't read my previous message as a whole at all given the way you responded to it, and just looked for trigger words you could use to push some kind of preconceived notions.
This is irrelevant to the point I made in the text you quoted.
> Well, C did turn into C++. The entity that gave forth C++ is C.
My mother didn't turn into me. She just gave rise to me. She's still alive and well.
My point, which seems to have completely escaped you, is that C itself should not turn into C++, so claims that any attempt at all ever to improve C with the addition of a single constraint mechanism for managing pointer size safely is a slipper slope to duplicating what C++ has become, leaving no non-C++ C language in its wake -- well, such claims seem unlikely to be an unavoidable Truth.
> A good way to have a C++ with fewer features would be to trim from C++ rather than add to C.
Again, my point is not easily crammed into the round hole of your idea of how things worked. It is, instead, that C can have a few more safety features without becoming "C++ with fewer features".
I feel like you didn't read my previous message as a whole at all given the way you responded to it, and just looked for trigger words you could use to push some kind of preconceived notions.