Comment by CyberDildonics

It's easy to claim generalities and from there claim things that must be true, but when it comes down to it, C++ enables things that just can't be done without changing. Turning off a feature is trivial, adding destructors, move semantics and being able to wrap generic data structures up so they have value semantics is just not something you can do with C.

Saying "people generally mean this" is not only not true it isn't any sort of technical argument.