From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Which is best? C or C++ ???
Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:02:49 +0000
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~liquid~ wrote:
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> I thought that the object oriented nature of C++ would give it a leg up on the older version?
> I haven't learned C yet but I've read a book on C++ and it emphisized the introduction of new
> statements allowing for more "bug free" programming by constraining it to limit the uses.
> a prime example is the "goto" statement.. From what I've read it should be avoided as much as possible

Few self-respecting C programmers will use 'goto'.  :-)  I think the
ultimate answer to this question lies not in the language itself, but in
the programmer's use of the language.  It's just as easy to write
mangled C++ code as it is to write mangled C code, and it is
mathematically provable that anything written in C++ can be rewritten to
function identically in C.

Try both, see what you like the best, and work from there.

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