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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Any interest in making C++ a real superset of ANSI C?
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Date: 2 Jun 89 15:36:08 GMT
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In article <WJC.89Jun1232654@ho5cad.ho5cad.ATT.COM> wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) writes:

>Well, for example, on page 3 of "The C++ Programming Language", twice
>as a matter of fact.

It says "C is retained as a subset", but then in page 5 it says
"both C and ANSI C are very close to being subsets of C++"
and under the "Efficiency and Structure" heading (same page), it says

"C++ was developed from the C programmingh language and with very few
exceptions retains C as a subset".

It's clear that you can't retain 100% compatibility with C.
Even this doesn't compile:

main(){
  printf("hello, world\n");
}
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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