Which C++ standard? It really matters. They really are completely different languages.

C++98 was only a few steps past "C with Classes". Compare some C++98 code (which at this point looks like somewhat portable object-oriented assembly in terms of abstraction level) to some modern idiomatic C++14 code. Idiomatic C++14 is often closer to a functional language with compile-time computation than anything a C programmer would recognize. No raw pointers anywhere, first-class function objects, implicit dependency ordering on multithreaded computations with continuations, there's a lot to love there. (There's a lot of legacy baggage too, but the core language is actually becoming quite beautiful.)