&quot;If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&quot;. In C you have to build everything from scratch. If you need classes, hack some structs. If you need string concatenation, write some mallocs and strcpy, and so on. C is cool, but really, there&#x27;s no way C is more &quot;practical&quot; than C++11, and C++14 will be even better.