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If you're just learning a first language, C is a much better choice than C++. The poster who said that C++ isn't more complex than C has obviously never had to tackle virtual inheritance, virtual functions with multiple inheritance, problems with dynamic casting and typecasts changing pointer values, operator overloading...
C++ takes C as a starting point and adds a huge amount of new stuff. It's more complex. Seriously. It contains all of C as a (small) subset. How can it *not* be more complex?
You can get away with using fewer of the complicated, nasty C++ features if you only use your own code. But if you ever plan to have another coder on your MUD (you do, right?) you'll have to deal with them. And while everybody seems to agree that C++ is a combination of okay stuff and gross, horrible hacks, nobody seems to agree about which is which. So he'll be using some stuff you consider to be gross, horrible hacks.
I believe that C is the clean part of C++, and almost all of the rest is made of gross, horrible hacks :-)
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