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Johan Henriksson wrote:

> >> >Why go to all the trouble of learning C++ if all you want to learn
> >> >is C?
> >> * You can read ~100% more sources to others apps
> >True, but by that logic you should also learn Java, Perl, etc.,
> >while you're at it, then you could read even more sources.
> I'd suggest learning basic as well. Then you have most languages covered.

Who uses Basic? :)

Looking at the projects on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net) the
six most popular languages at the moment appear to be the following.
(The figures are the number of SourceForge projects using these langauges.)

  2297  C
  1769  C++
   957  Java
   933  Perl
   674  PHP
   400  Python

> >A C++ compiler will choke on
> >    char *ptr = malloc(9);
> >although this is fine in C.
> 
> Is it? Didn't know it was legal with such init's.

I meant inside a function, otherwise it's obviously not allowed.
The problem C++ has with the above is that malloc() returns void*,
which is not the same as the type of ptr.
 
> >There are other differences, but I can't remember them all at the
> >moment.  Somewhere there is a web page listing differences, but
> >I've lost the URL.
> :(

I've found this:

   http://home.flash.net/~dtribble/text/cdiffs.htm

Unfortunately, it compares C++ with C99 instead of C90.  Since
there are currently no compilers that support C99 this isn't
very useful.  (C99 has lots of things that C++ lacks.  See also
http://x51.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=660927816 - although there are
a few mistakes there.)