Are there any famous game engines written in C?

[Queue29]

This is by far the most ignorant post I have ever seen on these forums. Judging by your comments you have been programming for about 2 years tops.

+1

People who poo-poo C++ are either ignorant or naive, or both. Sure, it's a complicated mess. But there's a reason it's so popular.

There are only two types of programming language: The type everyone complains about. The type nobody uses or cares about

- Bjarne Stroustrup

[MaxIBoy]

People who poo-poo C++ are either ignorant or naive, or both.

Maybe you're right, but I'm in good company, including Eric S. Raymond:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=532

Sure, it's a complicated mess. But there's a reason it's so popular.

If it's a complicated mess, then it doesn't matter HOW popular it is. There was a time when pet rocks were all the rage, and I can't for the life of me figure out a good reason for that. Sure, pet rocks didn't last longer than six months, but six months is already enough to generate a lot of momentum and legacy code for a programming language.

[BrokenKingpin]

C++ has a lot of good features for why it has been around for this long.