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Re: another stupid question

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jul 28, 2004
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don cole wrote:
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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.

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