On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:12:51 +1100
Gottfried Szing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ok, i was not as accurate as necessary. you are completely right, but i 
> think for a rough (very rough) classification the term C/C++ is correct.

No its not. You still don't hear people talking about C/C++/Java do you?
They are three separate languages.

> i think as long as C is viewed as a subset of the language C++ 

Sorry, but C is not a subset of C++. It is STUNNINGLY easy to write C code 
which cannot be compiled as-is, by a C++ compiler. That is any C code which 
uses new, delete, bool, class etc etc as variable names.

Erik
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