On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> wrote: > Rhodri James <[email protected]>: > >> C++ is designed, true, but well designed? It has a fundamental flaw; >> it wants to be both a high-level language and compatible with C, under >> the mistaken impression that C is a high level language. Since C is >> actually an excellent macro-assembler, this dooms the exercise from >> the very start. > > C++ was never compatible with C, any more than Peter Jackson's Hobbit > movies were a rendition of JRR Tolkien's "Hobbit, or There and Back > Again."
The places where C++ is not a superset of C are mostly things you wouldn't want to be doing anyway. You can generally take C code and compile it with a C++ compiler, and it'll have the same semantics. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
