Re: Admiral Tuttle (Should be ...) Revisited

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In article <9307140635.aa13529@dsc.blm.gov> cjames@DSC.BLM.GOV (Colin James 062
1) writes:
>
>Mark C Carroll, and others, assert that C++ is not a pre-processor
>and that C does not necessarily produce faster running code.  In
>my opinion they are misinformed because the original definition
>and intent of C++ was as a pre-processor to generate C code (not
>assembler or machine code).  If C++ has become something else then
>it should have a new name such as C+++ for non-pre-processor
>implementations on hardware platforms such as PC's.
>
>I do regret the confusion generated by attributing "oracorp.com" to
>Oracle;  I also regret making valid arguments about C and C++ because
>those comments were not read carefully by the critics, and hence my
>cartouche below.

Just for fun, I'm also directing followups to comp.lang.c++.  Somebody
*please* explain to this person the difference between language definition
and implementation.

--ben