I have difficulty handling the complexity of typical C code due to the lack of abstraction. C always winds up with huge functions and lots of hard to grasp state up in your face. C++ gives you way more opportunities to hide away complexity.
C always winds up with huge functions and lots of hard to grasp state up in your face.
That's something I've never found to be the case. Most of my C functions are 5-15 lines long. Anything more than 20 lines long is a candidate for refactoring - the unit tests will tell you if you've broken anything.
Think of it like this: Would you rather have an operating system that has a bunch of little ads in the corner by the clock that are periodically "hidden" under a chevron, or would you rather that the crap wasn't there in the first place?
