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Would someone care to ELI5 the differences in functionality between C, C+, C++, and C#?

C - Compiled language, imperative, pretty basic constructs (no OO, no GC), basically portable Assembly

C+ - No idea.

C++ - C with a bunch of stuff added on (mainly OO, other goodies too). Still no GC.

C# - not related to C at all. It's basically Microsoft's Java, with GC, OO, higher level constructs, lots of sugar, etc...

C+ isn't a language, they went straight from C to C++ (++ is the increment operator)