C or C++?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sat May 28 13:53:00 EDT 2005


On Sat, 28 May 2005 12:12:06 -0400
Bob Bell <bbell at macroped.com> wrote:

> What you choose may depend on which of those descriptions matches what
> you want for a particularly project.  For instance, there's a reason
> most OS kernels are written in C.
C was designed specifically as an implementation language to re-write
Unix with.  This is what makes C++ so powerful. You not only have all
the features of the C++ language, but you have access to most of the
legacy C features. 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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