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From: bobk@hplsla.HP.COM (                Bob Kunz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++ as a better C (fact or fiction)?
Message-ID: <6590041@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 88 18:00:22 GMT
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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I recently attended the AT&T training on C++ and an interesting question
came up in one of the discussions about the use of C++ "simply as a 
better C".  The opinions ranged from only use C++ if you intend to use
all it's features to it's fine to use as a better C because it has type
checking and one can choose to use the other features if one wants to.

What's the opinion of the net?  Have people used C++ as a better C and
been successful?  Or do people only consider C++ when speaking object
oriented in the same breath?  Does the problem need to be solvable by
object oriented techniques before C++ is considered?  Why did you not
use C?  And would an ANSI-C compiler have made a difference?

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Bob Kunz			hplsla!bobk
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