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: 1995-01-28 15:07:18 PST Path: swrinde!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C/C++ does not exist! Date: 28 Jan 1995 13:21:41 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3ge1vl$gva@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3g8s8eINNclv@marble.summit.novell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-01-28T13:21:41-05:00 List-Id: 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!