Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/01/26/05:46:57
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
> > From: "Michael Wahl, PicoQuant" <wahl AT pq DOT fta-berlin DOT NOSPAMPLEASE DOT de>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:48:41 +0100
> >
> > > You may choose C++ I you want, but it is untrue that "C is a part of
> > > C++." Such an assertion shows an insufficient grasp of at least one of
> > > these languages. This ignorance raises questions abour whether your
> > > recommendation of one of them over the other is worth anything at all.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Carius est nobis flagellari p doctrina quam nescire.
> > > [leofre ys us beon beswungen for lare thaenne hit ne cunnan.]
> > > - MS Cotton Tiberius A, xv, fol. 60v (British Library)
> >
> >
> > Oh yeah, Mr. Smart give us expert advice in Latin.
>
> In case you didn't notice, the advice was before the Latin, and it's
> in plain English. See above.
But I remember Bjarne Stroustrup stating in his book "The C++
Programming Language" that C has been retained as a subset of C++
(that has been one of the design goals of C++).
"Except for minor details, C++ is a superset of the C programming
language." [Check out the "Preface to the First Edition" of the above
mentioned book. ]
Maybe the "Historical Note" section of the first chapter of the above
said book would throw more light.
Cheers,
anna
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