From: Erik Max Francis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: C and C++. Was: Re: Borland/djgpp functions Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:19:03 -0700 Organization: Alcyone Systems Lines: 23 Message-ID: <34457997.245698A6@alcyone.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.alcyone.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk G DOT DegliEsposti AT ads DOT it wrote: > Anyway I agree on one point: since there are some important > differences > between the two languages (so it is not even correct to say that C++ > is a > superset > of C) it gets important to know if someone is talking about C or C++ > when > they > have some problems. Anyone who argues that C++ is a superset of C is just plain wrong. There are numerous, mostly fairly subtle, changes in C++ from C that make this statement completely wrong. -- Erik Max Francis, &tSftDotIotE / mailto:max AT alcyone DOT com Alcyone Systems / http://newton.alcyone.com/ San Jose, California, United States / icbm://+37.20.07/-121.53.38 \ "After each war there is a little / less democracy to save." / Brooks Atkinson