I basically agree re C++, especially C++ GUI programming, in fact my "C/C++" is pretty much C compiled with a C++ compiler
C code may seem to take 10x longer to write, but if your goal is something that works, the development may still end up 10x faster...
Anyhow, software is one of the few areas where a good performer can be literally 100x more productive than a bad one, so IMHO the language is seldom the issue
