C++ Compiling Problems
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon May 23 15:23:24 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:39 +0000, Rick wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> > Matthew Miller wrote:
> Seems like an odd thing to say, you make it sound like C & C++ are
> entirley different languages.
Well, they are not _entirely_ different languages, but in fact, they are
really are different languages.
> C++ is C with some additional commands to
> make handling objects easier
Not quite. What you say once applied in the beginning of the 90's, but
since then things have changed.
True, C++ has additional commands for object handling and the syntax in
C/C++ has many things in common, nevertheless C++ and C meanwhile have
developed into different languages.
> and a stricter compiler.
Almost. Modern C-compilers are almost as strict as C++ compilers.
[Guess why many people complain about GCC-4.x :-) ]
> C++ doesn't do
> strings in the same sense that C doesn't.
Exactly.
Ralf
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