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> If he knows C, he will know C++ too. What? The two languages are only barely related as used in industry. Tons of people use C every day who wouldn't think
by gte910h 15y ago
> If he knows C, he will know C++ too.
What?
The two languages are only barely related as used in industry. Tons of people use C every day who wouldn't think about touching C++.
C++ is rarely used compared to straight C in:
OSes
Micro-controllers
Libraries
Lots of users of C also think C++ is a horrid mistake for many application development efforts (hard to find engineers who do C++ right enough vs most other languages).
And those same C people have rarely programmed in GUI environments as well.
- Meai 15y agoI agree that C++ is horrible, but I was under the impression that everyone who knows C would have at least learned C++ before discarding it, making it possible to at least use C++ libraries.
- gte910h 15y agoNaw, tons of EE's know enough C to not have to do assembler, but don't get C++ at all. Lots of other people know C because they do extensions for their preferred language. Lastly people know enough C++ to know they don't know C++ well enough to release software in it.
- antoarts 15y agoC++ is vastly different from C. I know C, yet I don't know C++.