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

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.