Tenacious C shows you what points to what

Re:Tenacious C shows you what points to what by gte910h on Saturday July 09, 2011 @01:34PM (#2745934)

> If he knows C, he will know C++ too.

What?

The two languages are only barely related as used in industry. Tons of people use C every day who wouldn't think about touching C++.

  C++ is rarely used compared to straight C in:
  OSes 
  Micro-controllers 
  Libraries

Lots of users of C also think C++ is a horrid mistake for many application development efforts (hard to find engineers who do C++ right enough vs most other languages).

And those same C people have rarely programmed in GUI environments as well.

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Re:Tenacious C shows you what points to what by Meai on Saturday July 09, 2011 @02:13PM (#2746032)

I agree that C++ is horrible, but I was under the impression that everyone who knows C would have at least learned C++ before discarding it, making it possible to at least use C++ libraries.

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Re:Tenacious C shows you what points to what by gte910h on Saturday July 09, 2011 @04:19PM (#2746272)

Naw, tons of EE's know enough C to not have to do assembler, but don't get C++ at all. Lots of other people know C because they do extensions for their preferred language. Lastly people know enough C++ to know they don't know C++ well enough to release software in it.

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Re:Tenacious C shows you what points to what by antoarts on Saturday July 09, 2011 @04:23PM (#2746280)

C++ is vastly different from C. I know C, yet I don't know C++.

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