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From: jeffb@grace.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Any interest in making C++ a real superset of ANSI C?
Summary: Does too!
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Date: 2 Jun 89 19:14:46 GMT
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In-reply-to: ekrell@hector.UUCP's message of 2 Jun 89 15:36:08 GMT

In article <11623@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:

>Even this doesn't compile:
>
>main(){
> printf("hello, world\n");
>}
>


But it does!  Witness:

	% cat >t.cc
	main(){
	 printf("hello, world\n");
	}
	% g++ t.cc
	% a.out
	hello, world
	% cp t.cc t.c
	% CC t.c
	CC  t.c:
	"t.c", line 2: warning: undeclared function printf() called
	cc    t..c -lC
	% a.out
	hello, world
	% 
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"It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing
the trivial details of a program - such as where its bugs are."