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From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Any interest in making C++ a real superset of ANSI C?
Message-ID: <10329@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET>
Date: 5 Jun 89 04:42:29 GMT
References: <7435@hoptoad.uucp> <9395@alice.UUCP> <10308@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <11620@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
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Whatever the context was, in article <10308@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> I wrote:

>>Yes, just as C++ breaks every non-trival C program ever written.

In article <11620@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:

>Where does it say a C++ compiler should be able to compile C sources?

Well, guess where it says that C++ was intended to be upward compatible
from C, and that compatibility with C was a major priority.  If such
compatibility was not desired, an entirely new language would have been
designed.

OK, let's have two languages, one upward compatible from C, and one with
a nice clean new consistent syntax.  I would prefer to use the second
one (probably), but the name C++ belongs to the first one.

--
Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.co.jp@relay.cs.net)
  The above opinions are my own.   |  Why are programmers criticized for
  If they're also your opinions,   |  re-implementing the wheel, when car
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