> Good luck chasing bugs then, though. qsort() will be totally happy comparing apples to oranges - aka there is zero type safety.

That's a fair point. However, I do not tend to make many of the mistakes that would be caught by the C++ type system. But different people tend to make different kinds of mistakes.

The type bugs that happen tend to be pretty obvious and easy to debug. Good luck to you debugging template code :) I've had a harder time debugging C++ code than C code. Again, YMMV.