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I see that some people in the comments on Hanselman's site are using the terminology "C/C++". Back when I was learning C and C++, it was described as poor form,
by ern 16y ago
I see that some people in the comments on Hanselman's site are using the terminology "C/C++". Back when I was learning C and C++, it was described as poor form, and a sign that that the writer didn't know either language very well.
Has it become more acceptable to conflate the two languages in recent years?
- timr 16y agoNo....what you're seeing is a side-effect of the fact that most critics of C++ these days don't actually know the language. It's still wrong to conflate C and C++, but since most students now come up learning Java, they rarely encounter C++ as its own language. It gets grouped together mentally with those "nasty, C-like languages", and the stereotypes linger.
- cema 16y agoHas it become more acceptable to conflate the two languages in recent years? Either that, or people use it as a shortcut for "the C family of programming languages" which would include mostly C and C++ as well as special-purpose dialects.