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Discussion on: The Never Ending battle between C and C++

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Paddy3118 • Edited

C++ has tried to be a superset of C, where there are a large set of programs that could be compiled by either compiler, and C level idiomd try to be carried over to C++.

In practice, some people write C++ as just enough C to get through the C++ compiler.