Board:   [DoveNet] Programming
Subject: C Origins
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Tue Mar 25, 2025 14:50

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  Re: C Origins
  By: Mortar to All on Tue Mar 25 2025 02:11 pm

 >> Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++.

 Mo> Not quite.  C came out in '72 while C++ came out in '85 and is an
 Mo> extension of C.

I don't think the time of release of the languages matters.  I've sometimes seen people say C++ is a superset of C, so I think it can be said that C is a subset of C++.

I've heard initially, C++ was implemented as CFront, which was a literal extension of C, but C++ has evolved to be its own stand-alone implementation.

Nightfox

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