Jan Claeys wrote: > Op za, 09-09-2006 te 13:49 -0700, schreef Radenski, Atanas: >> Bjarne Stroustrup was educated in the Simula tradition and recognized >> the benefits of objects, so he decided to improve C by adding objects. >> Most notably, Stroustrup preferred compatible design in his transition >> from C to C++. Indeed, C programs are C++ programs as well.
> That's not true and mr. Stroustrups own books explain how and why; even > basic C programs might be invalid as C++ programs (or they work > different in C than in C++, which is even worse). Strictly speaking this is true, but Mr. Stroustrups own papers also explain how important the full C/C++ compatibility is - and that achieving it is his ideal (sect. 5 in this paper): http://www.research.att.com/~bs/compat_short.pdf _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
