From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Which is best? C or C++ ??? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:02:49 +0000 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3496C249.263D@cs.com> References: <348a15e5 DOT 826895 AT news DOT clear DOT net DOT nz> <01bd0a80$b482bb00$a47de3c7 AT merlyn> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp206.cs.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 ~liquid~ wrote: > > 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "Autocracy is based on the assumption| | aka Fighteer I | that one man is wiser than a million | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | men. Let's play that over again, | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | too. Who decides?" - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------