About programing, a general question

[les]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 14:05 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 01:52 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org
> > <mailto:gaf at blu.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     A properly optimized simple C++ program should be able to perform
> >     as well
> >     as C.  
> >
> >     --
> >     Jerry Feldman
> >
> >
> >
> > Simply say, C++ is the daughter of C which has become more advanced.
> I a way. C++ is essentially an Object Oriented version of C. While there
> are common members of the 2 standards committees, they are currently 2
> different languages. In my Northeastern C course, one of the examples I
> used was a fully C standard compliant program, but it would not compile
> in a C++ compiler. Some of the students were using Microsoft Visual C++,
> and did not tell the compiler it was a C program. Basically they are
> close. Additionally in C++ I am going to use the new and delete
> operators to allocate and deallocate memory where in C, I'll use
> malloc(3) and free(3) for the same thing. But, never malloc(3) and
> free(3) in C++. I also don't like to get into discussions about what is
> the best language. The choice of language to use for a project is based
> on many factors. If the project is learning, go to a language that is
> relatively easy to learn that uses the basic structures. I rarely write
> assembler language directly, but many times I would simulate what I
> wanted to do in C, then generate the assembly from there, and hand
> optimize.
> 
VERY well said.  Thank you Jerry!

Regards,
Les H