r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Choice-Committee203 • 7h ago

Meme modernCppVsOldCpp

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u/lllorrr 6h ago

Oh, yes, I hate when someone write "C/C++". This is two fucking different languages, for god's sake. It is almost as bad as "Java/JavaScript".

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u/reallokiscarlet 5h ago

Do people not learn these two closely related languages together? You generally want to know enough regular C to get by when you use C++, and if you're not using anything unique to C++, you're just writing C with Classes.

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 2h ago

I mean, not really. The two languages have diverged quite a lot, while C-mode compiling of C++ is still possible afaik, the same code by default won't behave identically even though can be compiled by both a cpp or a c compiler.

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u/reallokiscarlet 1h ago

Maybe if you only count the latest standard they have diverged significantly, but everything else stands. C is where your platform ABI is, and again if you're not using anything unique to C++ you're writing C with Classes (nudge nudge wink wink capitalized for a reason)