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From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfru AT chat DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: C or C++?
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:11:44 +0300
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G Anna <drguruolai AT eth DOT net> wrote in message news:wky9ilo610 DOT fsf AT eth DOT net...
> But I remember Bjarne Stroustrup stating in his book "The C++
> Programming Language" that C has been retained as a subset of C++
> (that has been one of the design goals of C++).
>
> "Except for minor details, C++ is a superset of the C programming
> language."  [Check out the "Preface to the First Edition" of the above
> mentioned book. ]

Right. C is a subset of C++. The reason for that is making it possible to
have pieces of C code in C++ programs. While one can argue that it's not a
nice thing to mix C and C++ techniques, another can have insufficient time
or resources to port a perfectly working C library to C++ and will benefit
from C being a subset of C++ because he'll not have to rewrite the complete
thing.

Good Luck
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