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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c.moderated,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Is C/C++ convertor available ???
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 20:03:55 -0500
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4kg88m$ig8@solutions.solon.com>,
- William O'Hara <ohara@tiac.ent> wrote:
- >>You heard wrong. g++ is a C++ compiler, not a C++ to C
- >translator, and it has
- >>no such option.
- >
- > I DO NOT use gcc. Yet I wouldn't doubt that
- >there was a feature.. After all C++ is an extension to
-
- You can doubt or not doubt all you want, but as far as other people are
- concerned, the feature is NOT there.
-
- >C which is theortically an extension to itself. :)
- >Classes and such all boil down to structures.. Don't
- >ever get the idea that C++ is its own language. It goes
- >through a tier of translation before compilation.
-
- This, of course, is pure nonsense.
-
- The way we may feel about the worth of C++ doesn't change the fact that: 1) it
- is a language in its own right, and 2) g++ does _not_ translate C++ to C. It is
- a compiler for the C++ language.
-
- Just because C++ _can_ be translated to C doesn't mean that it bears any
- relation to C. Pascal can also be translated into C.
-
- Ada can be translated into machine code. Does that mean that Ada is not its
- own language but an extension of machine language?
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