What is the difference between C and C++?

Point	C	C++
Style	Procedural	Procedural, object oriented, generic
Classes	No	Yes
Overloading	No	Yes
References	No	Yes
Templates, exceptions	No	Yes
Strings and containers	char arrays, own code	std::string, STL
Memory	malloc and free	new, delete, smart pointers
I/O	printf, scanf	cout, cin, print

This C code is not valid C++, because C++ does not convert void* automatically:

#include <stdlib.h>

int main() {
    int* p = malloc(sizeof(int));
    free(p);
}

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