https://marco.org/2007/09/24/c-is-a-horrible-language-its-made-more
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.
— Linus Torvalds (thanks Anmar)