EVen C99 has nothing to do with bastard childs such as C++.
The last is convoluted crap, full of redundant functions.
Further C standards do exist, but C99 and heck, even ANSI C can be good enough for daily uses.
Perl, Ruby and PHP look close to each other, being the first the source of inspiration.
But don't try to write PHP/Ruby code as if it was something close to Perl. The same with C++.
