1. another stupid question
- Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Jul 28, 2004
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I know you must think I am a fool, but what is C and C+. I really don't know but see I a lot of discussion about it. Don Cole SF
2. Re: another stupid question
- Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jul 28, 2004
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don cole wrote: > > > I know you must think I am a fool, but what is C and C+. > I really don't know but see I a lot of discussion about it. C is a relatively old compiled programming language which is still widely used. Because it does little to abstract the inner workings of computer hardware, it is at the same time very versatile and very unsafe. Meaning, for example, you can write software to manipulate hardware ports, registers, etc, but at the same time, you do so at your own (and your users') risk. It is left up to the programmer to make sure he or she isn't writing stuff to the wrong areas of memory, exceeding the bounds of arrays, etc. When things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong. There is no C+ language. C++ is an "object oriented" C. Regards, Irv