Re: year 11 maths survey

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:05:47 +0100, Jon Harrop <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> I would. A well-written C++ program which takes advantage of common C++
>> idioms is effectively unreadable to anyone who knows C but not C++.
>
>Yes.
>
>>> C programmers can use C++ compilers.
>>
>> Sure, if they want to write C++.
>
>Or if they want to write C. I often compile C using a C++ compiler without
>any trouble.
>
The most common way to do that is to give the source a ".c" extension,
whereupon the C++ compiler magically turns itself into a C compiler.
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