From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: C and C++. Was: Re: Borland/djgpp functions
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 19:19:03 -0700
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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.

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