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  • Re: Taking a community colleg

    From anthk@VERT to All on Saturday, March 22, 2025 02:32:11
    On 2024-01-22, nelgin <EOTLBBS!nelgin@vert.synchro.net> wrote:

    Re: Taking a community colleg
    By: Digital Man to Nopants on Sat Jan 20 2024 13:53:44

    Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++. The languages have diverged and re-converged a bit over the years (and versions of their standards), but yeah, almost any experienced C++ programmer can program in C, though they often groan about it. :-)

    I think the thing that put me off learning C is the 1001 different compile options for gcc. If you're going to be working on more portable open source projects then there's a whole subset of stuff you problem need to know like the autoconf tools and the like.

    The code will run faster but I'm happy just to rip off a bit of perl and be done with it. no compilation, no makes files.

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 14:11:08
    Re: Re: Taking a community colleg
    By: anthk to All on Sat Mar 22 2025 02:32:11

    Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++.

    Not quite. C came out in '72 while C++ came out in '85 and is an extension of C.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mortar on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 13:50:52
    Re: C Origins
    By: Mortar to All on Tue Mar 25 2025 02:11 pm

    Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++.

    Not quite. C came out in '72 while C++ came out in '85 and is an extension of C.

    I don't think the time of release of the languages matters. I've sometimes seen people say C++ is a superset of C, so I think it can be said that C is a subset of C++.

    I've heard initially, C++ was implemented as CFront, which was a literal extension of C, but C++ has evolved to be its own stand-alone implementation.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mortar on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 21:38:58
    Re: C Origins
    By: Mortar to All on Tue Mar 25 2025 02:11 pm

    Re: Re: Taking a community colleg
    By: anthk to All on Sat Mar 22 2025 02:32:11

    Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++.

    Not quite. C came out in '72 while C++ came out in '85 and is an extension of C.

    you reply to the person instead of typing all. you're using the fseditor.
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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 20:52:30
    Re: C Origins
    By: MRO to Mortar on Tue Mar 25 2025 09:38 pm

    Not quite. C came out in '72 while C++ came out in '85 and is an extension
    of C.

    you reply to the person instead of typing all. you're using the fseditor.

    I don't think their editor matters. I'm pretty sure the person you're directing the message to is prompted by Synchronet before even running the editor.

    Nightfox

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