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> I started with Turbo Pascal 3, Moved to 4, 4.5, 5, 6 then Delphi. Somewhere in there moved to "C" and then "C++". I never understand why people use "C" as op
by msla 3y ago
> I started with Turbo Pascal 3, Moved to 4, 4.5, 5, 6 then Delphi. Somewhere in there moved to "C" and then "C++".
I never understand why people use "C" as opposed to C.
Does anyone use "Pascal" as opposed to Pascal?
- kylecazar 3y agoI hadn't seen it before this. Stood out to me.
- dminvs 3y agoIf it was Borland's compiler suite it may or may not have been perfectly standards-compliant, hence the quotation marks. The Borland suite from the early 90s seemed to be pretty relaxed/forgiving about what was valid C/C++. My school utilized Turbo C++ 3.0 for instruction (and later 4.5), which implemented some weird subset that was pre-C++98. Plenty of things that I was doing when targeting the Borland compiler barfed terribly when compiled with GCC (or G++). I'd definitely consider what we were writing in those days "C" or "C++" but not anything that resembles modern software...
- ptspts 3y agoBorland C++ was released before 1993. No wonder it didn't support C++98 at that time.
- coliveira 3y agoNot only that, but Borland also had extensions in their C++ compiler to simplify the development of GUI code (similar but different to the tricks Microsoft also used in their compilers).
- electroly 3y agoI assume they are doing that to distinguish the Borland products (Borland C and Borland C++) from the programming languages. Everything in that sentence is the name of a Borland product.
- malkia 3y agoUgh - sorry this quoting must be my own thing - I don't know why I keep quoting btw, and unfortunately can't tell if anyone else does it (you mentioned people, but you might've just wanted to be polite to me - hehe). I'll try to work on that! it got me thinking... why the heck!
- msla 3y agoYou certainly aren't the only one, but it's still odd enough to be marked. (To be more precise, I've seen C in quotes multiple times and maybe that's because one letter looks too small to be a name to some people, but I don't think I've ever seen C++ in quotes before.)
- JSR_FDED 3y agoIf you’re going to quote C please note that you should be using single quotes: ‘C’