title: What are the bad habits of C programmers starting to write C++?
body: <p>A discussion recently ended laughing at the bad habits of programmers that have been <em>too</em> exposed to a language when they start programming in another language. The best example would be a Pascal programmer starting to <code>#define begin {</code> and <code>#define end }</code> when starting to write C.</p>
  
  <p>Goal is to try to catch the bad habits of C programmers when they start using C++.</p>
  
  <p>Tell about the big <em>don't</em> that you encountered. One suggestion by answer, please, to try to achieve a kind of best of.</p>
  
  <p>For the ones interested in good habits, have a look at the accepted answer to this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1420685/c-good-habits-re-transitioning-to-c">question</a>.</p>