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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C++ (Re: Casting malloc() in ANSI C?)
Message-ID: <7303@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 14 Dec 89 14:30:41 GMT
References: <24969@cup.portal.com> <2243@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
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In article <2243@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
> Since C++ is the way C is moving...

A questionable sentiment to say the least. C++ is clearly superior to C
in some ways, but it's a new language. And not necessarily the best language
for the things it's good at.

At any rate, C++ != C.

[ Actually, the value of the expression "C++ != C" is implementation-defined ]
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