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
