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 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "In my opinion, shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software (no sources) with the worst of free software (no finishing touches). I simply do not believe in the shareware market at all." -- Linus Torvalds -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
