C++ Compiling Problems

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 14:39 +0000, Rick wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> > Matthew Miller wrote:

> Seems like an odd thing to say, you make it sound like C & C++ are 
> entirley different languages.
Well, they are not _entirely_ different languages, but in fact, they are
really are different languages.

>  C++ is C with some additional commands to 
> make handling objects easier
Not quite. What you say once applied in the beginning of the 90's, but
since then things have changed.

True, C++ has additional commands for object handling and the syntax in
C/C++ has many things in common, nevertheless C++ and C meanwhile have
developed into different languages.

>  and a stricter compiler.
Almost. Modern C-compilers are almost as strict as C++ compilers.

[Guess why many people complain about GCC-4.x :-) ]

>  C++ doesn't do 
> strings in the same sense that C doesn't.
Exactly.

Ralf