Re: C/C++ does not exist!

[nebbe@lglsun.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)]

In article <3g8s8eINNclv@marble.summit.novell.com>, jls@summit.novell.com (Schilling J.) writes:

|> 
|> It's been said before, but it deserves to be said again:  there is no such
|> language as "C/C++".  There are two separate languages, C and C++, which in
|> many respects are as different as night and day.   This is especially true
|> in the context of Ada -- for C has almost nothing in common with Ada, while 
|> C++ has a good deal in common with Ada.

The thing is a lot of people look at the move from C to C++ as not
really changing languages. They can compile "good" C with a C++ compiler
so they figure it is like moving from Word5 to Word6. At the university
where I work there are quite a few people (outside of the Computer Science
departement) that say they are programming in C++ but they are really
programming in C with a little "++" sprinkled on top.

Robb Nebbe