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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: 25 Feb 1996 19:01:16 GMT
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- Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
- : No one ever said that this applied to "everyone", my original remark
- : was that it was remarkable how many people made pronouncements about
- : C++ without knowing much about it, and that particularly people who
- : lumpied C and C++ together as though they were one language were likely
- : in that category.
-
- Yes, I must apologize ... it seems that I either did not read
- your post carefully enough, or simply misunderstood it for a
- second. All these people waving their language's flag like it
- was their national banner tends to get me a bit jumpy :) ...
-
- : I am sure your professor does not think that C and C++ are the same
- : language :-)
-
- From lectures, it would seem that answer is a no, but I don't think
- most people when they say C/C++ are insinuating that they're the
- same language (I don't, at least) ... I mean, for instance,
- I say that on occasion, and I love c coding, but really would rather
- not code in C++ ... its just something that i've never really
- gotten into. (of course, I've not done any 'Real World large programming')
- either - If I thought they were the same language, It would stand
- to reason that i'd enjoy or dislike both, eh? :)
-
- <Humour mode>
- Anyhow, perhaps the reason C/C++ started is due to all these DOS
- C++ compilers out there which have every Tom, Dick, and Harry
- "wannabe windows" programmer writing c code, using // for comments,
- and think they have C++ programs ;) </Humour mode>
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