On Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:26:55 AM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote:
>
> I know the OP seems to have made his/her choice, but I had to comment on 
> this one statement as it is incorrect, and "noob" eyes are watching I'm 
> sure.
>
> *"Java has a large number of forward-looking concepts (e.g. decorators.) 
>> C++ is "a better C" and can hit the bare metal hardware where Java cannot."*
>
>
> This statement is wrong. Two different tools for two different jobs - 
> really. C++ is not a "better C" C++ is C++, and C is C. C++ has so much 
> that is unique from C, and you can not have C++ with out C. Also, C in the 
> strict sense is procedural, where C++ is object oriented. But as seen all 
> over the web, anything can be warped to do just about - whatever.
>

I was directly quoting Stroustrup's answer to "What is C++" (
http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#what-is)  It's a well-known statement 
and easily traced to him.

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