From: Aatu Koskensilta <zaphod AT sci DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: Borland/djgpp functions
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 03:46:05 -0700
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> >btw, you realize this is C, not C++, right?
> 
> Actually, I had no idea.  I only have a book on C++, and the program is
> from that book.  The book is _Learn C++ Today_ by Martin Rinehart.  Why
> isn't this C++?  It compiles fine with a .cc extension.

Most C code does (actually, there is very few C programs that won't compile
as C++ program with no modifications at all), because C is a subset of C++.

However, your program uses none of the C++ specific features (such as the
standard (perhaps some day?:)) io objects cout/cin etc.) and is thus a C
program. In a sense it also is a C++ program.... I think it's more convinient
to speak of C programs when none of the C++ specific features are used...

-- 
Later,
sqrt(-1) aka Aatu Koskensilta   (squirt AT seaga DOT org)
"Coders do it with a LUT"