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Were people of that opinion back in the day? I started* with Pascal, but I then moved to C++ the next semester. I only learned C as essentially a subset of C++
by bena 5y ago
Were people of that opinion back in the day?
I started* with Pascal, but I then moved to C++ the next semester. I only learned C as essentially a subset of C++. This was like 1996/97.
*Although I guess my first programming experience was with DOS/Windows Batch file scripting and some BASIC. Introduction to Programming with Pascal was the first programming language I took in as a class.
- zwieback 5y agoI was, yeah, if you mean using C++ as a better C but being slow to adapt the STL, standard library and associated concepts. We were doing a lot of device driver development and other constrained stuff back then (early 90s) so the "C++ as a higher-level language" vs. "C++ as incrementally improved C" was much discussed. Also, OO vs. generic programming was a hot topic, and still is. It's always hard to extend a language culture to include libraries, as some people will prefer to adapt or roll their own. If it's not automatically part of the language the community will fracture.