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

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

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. You shouldn't draw any larger conclusions from that choice.