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From: fischer@iesd.uucp (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ : A free lunch ?
Keywords: costs of C++. Apollo C++.
Message-ID: <997@iesd.uucp>
Date: 9 Nov 88 20:14:43 GMT
References: <133@icarus.kulcs.uucp> <4675@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark
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In article <4675@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
>C++ generates C.

No. C++ is a programming language and programming languages does not
generate anything. An *implementation* of C++ might generate C, or
Ada, or even machine code (wow :-).

Don't confuse language and implementation.
-- 
Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!diku!iesd!fischer
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