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From: andrew@uel.uel.co.uk (Andrew Josey)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: infos about c++
Message-ID: <722@uel.uel.co.uk>
Date: 9 Mar 88 17:32:12 GMT
References: <527@altger.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Unix Europe, London, UK
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Keywords: c++ help
Summary: C++ available in Europe




In article <527@altger.UUCP>, cld@altger.UUCP (Claus Duerr) writes:
>   c++ seems to be really great ! but i never saw a version of it in our local
>   software shops,so it would be really great to get some information about it!
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The C++ Translator supports programs written in the C++ programming
language, a superset of the C programming language offering
data abstraction and enhanced type checking. It allows your
programmers to build large or sophisticated applications more
productively. The C++ Translator converts C++ programmes into C
programmes and provides access to the full complement of C programming
language development tools.

In brief, C++ includes the following enhancements to the base C language:
- Data hiding
- Optional guaranteed initialization of data structures
- Optional user-defined implicit type conversion
- Overloading of function names
- Operator Overloading
- Dynamic typing (virtual functions)
- Function argument checking
- In-line functions
- User-controlled memory-management

The translator includes a version of the C standard header files for C++
and a C++ library providing support for:
- stream input/output
- complex arithmetic
- event-driven simulations, and
- generic user-defined data types

The C Code produced by C++ requires a C compiler that supports
long data types, structure assignment and structure parameter passing.
The guideline as to memory requirements given by Stroustrup, is that
a machine should have at least "a 384 Kbyte address space".

>   now the most important question for me: is c++ available for unix, msdos,os9
>   or/and the atari st ?

C++ runs on UNIX and MSDOS, I don't know about os9 or the atari st

>   could u pls mail me the adress of the distributor for c++ in europe
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