From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dff4194107a3f277 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-27 02:52:05 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!news.oleane.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!epflnews!dinews.epfl.ch!lglsun!nebbe From: nebbe@lglsun.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C/C++ does not exist! Date: 27 Jan 1995 10:52:05 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Sender: nebbe@lglsun3.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1995Jan27.114224@lglsun.epfl.ch> References: <3g8s8eINNclv@marble.summit.novell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lglsun3.epfl.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 1995-01-27T10:52:05+00:00 List-Id: 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