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From: Thomas Wicklund <wicklund@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Software Quality in Science
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:13:37 -0700
Date: 2010-02-09T21:13:37-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hktbpl023bv@enews5.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ced84e1-af7d-4c02-a593-0db456865553@m16g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>

On 2/9/2010 3:00 PM, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) wrote:
>
> Switching from C to C++ is nearly the same as switching from C to
> another C (C++ is backward compatible with C, as fat as I know), so
> this is not surprising there.

C++ is not backward compatible.  For instance, C++ requires function 
prototypes while C does not.  C++ strengthens type checking in some 
other ways.

Still, C++ type checking is nowhere near as strong as Ada.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-10  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09 21:20 Software Quality in Science Jerry
2010-02-09 21:51 ` Jerry
2010-02-09 22:00   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10  4:13     ` Thomas Wicklund [this message]
2010-02-10  5:24       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-09 23:43   ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10  1:01     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-10 14:34       ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-10 15:09         ` Martin
2010-02-10 16:37         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-10 17:05           ` Martin
2010-02-10 13:13     ` Florian Weimer
2010-02-10 13:30       ` (see below)
2010-02-10 13:38       ` Martin
2010-02-15 11:20       ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 14:52         ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-02-15 18:48           ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-10 14:29     ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-10 14:38       ` Hyman Rosen
2010-02-10 16:24         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-15 11:32       ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 12:19         ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-02-10 13:55   ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-02-10 14:21     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-10 22:52     ` Bob Spooner
2010-02-11  8:29       ` Rick
2010-02-11 22:39   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 23:10     ` Brian Drummond
2010-02-11 23:21       ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-11 23:24         ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12  0:06         ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-12  0:32           ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-12  7:37           ` Pascal Obry
2010-02-12 10:58           ` Stephen Leake
2010-02-12 15:02             ` Robert A Duff
2010-02-15 10:49           ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-02-12  7:37         ` Pascal Obry
2010-02-15 12:18       ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 11:08   ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-15 14:43     ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-15 19:01       ` Colin Paul Gloster

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