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From: Thomas Wicklund <wicklund@eskimo.com>
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Subject: Re: Software Quality in Science
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:13:37 -0700
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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.