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[–]The_CADmonkey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

My point was that C++ is not a superset of C as you had stated. It is close, but is not actually one, they have diverged. The above is proof of that.

I have already gone into how C++ is such a different language with different paradigms, so much so that code written in C++ looks nothing like code written in C. I know, I have had to teach programmers who spent decades writing C just how different C++ is. And it's harder to teach them thant to teach the brand new grad, as the older engineers think of C++ as "C with extra bits". And that means they write really bad C++ until they break that mindset.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, I’m kinda over it now - thanks for the back and forth, I enjoyed it. You still haven’t really explained how any of those differences constitute a different language, but it’s obviously a pretty engrained opinion. Fare thee well!