Re: C/C++ does not exist!

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Well it is not so easy to say that C and C++ are separate languages. Sure
I understand what Jonathan is saying, but the fact of the matter is that
you can be using a C++ compiler and programming in C. So really what we have
here is a spectrum with C at one end, and full C++ at the other. you
can't just take a binary view, and the real question, even among those
using C++ compilers, is how much they are really using C++.

Quite often I see "C++" programs which are really C programs using a little
bit of abstract data type stuff from C++ (it is after all so sorely missing
in C), but these programs still feel more like C programs than C++ programs
both philosphically and textually,

People use the label C/C++ to refer to this spectrum, and I think that's
fair enough. It certainly would be very hard for Greg or anyone else to
find out whether people where really using C++ or not!