It's strange to even call them the same language, it's even stranger when you consider the same compiler will deal with both subsets of the language. It's at the point where someone tells you something is in C++ and you can't even be sure what that means until you look at their code.
I keep my head down in language war discussions, but when people start the usual round of complaints and ridicule of C++, this is exactly what I think: I'm not sure we're actually talking about the same language.
