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For people who aren't professionally familiar with C or C++ it's an easy mistake to make considering how often things refer to "C/C++" like they are a single sk

• jacquesm 10y ago
  Once upon a time there was this thing called 'cfront'. Cfront took C++ and turned it into C which you then fed through your compiler. At that time mixing C and C++ was trivial, especially because C++ was still quite simple and the C compiler was the target. But after that things got more complicated. C evolved, several times in fact since that time and the C++ standard evolved as well. Leading to the impression that C and C++ are merely the old and the improved version of C but it is probably much better to think of them as two distinct species that share a common ancestor, where one of the two had some very radical mutations.
  • loeg 10y ago
    It would be relatively easy for C++ to add some kinds of C compatibility, and they just haven't bothered to. (E.g., the "static" keyword for parameter array sizes.) It's a little annoying for shared headers that have to be used in C and C++ programs.
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• dfrey 10y ago
  When people use the term "C/C++", I assume that they don't know either language well.