Re: Other programming languages (Was: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?)

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 01:37:08 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:50:11 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:
 

On 9/12/24 18:32, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: 

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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:40:17 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
 

A lot of early C++ programs I've seen were just, umm, "enhanced"
"C" programs. 

 
Given that C++ makes “virtual” optional instead of standard
behaviour, I’d say that C++ is in fact designed to be used that
way. 

 
Like many other aspects of C++, that was dictated by a necessity of
remaining a certain minimum level of backwards compatibility with
existing C code. 

 
No it wasn’t. OO was an entirely new feature, with no counterpart in
C, so there was nothing to maintain “backwards compatibility” with.

Agreed.
Method syntax was entirely new with no backward compatibility
restrictions.
BTW, in these sort of discussion I'd rather avoid in-concrete words,
like "OO".