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- Subject: Re: C or C++?
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 17:24:26 GMT
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- David Rogers (drogers@grizzly.cs.washington.edu) wrote:
- : Greg DiGiorgio (nngis@norfolk.infi.net) wrote:
- : : *** If you stick to hardware as is probable in a CE degree, I think
- : : *** you'll benefit more from learning 'C' than C++. You see, C is much
- : : *** more portable than C++ and compiles into smaller code than does C++.
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- : More portable I would agree with, since we have to consider micro-
- : controllers and the like. But "smaller code" is not true. Au contraire,
- : I would expect that state of the art optimization will be more available
- : with C++ compilers. Otherwise, I agree 100% with your comments.
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- If I am not mistaken, There is no difference between the C++ and C
- compilers. The only difference is library functions, which new ones had
- been written for C++. As for the environment and program itself, very
- little difference at all (bug fixes at most)
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