On 2024-01-22, nelgin <EOTLBBS!nelgin@vert.synchro.net> wrote:

Re: Taking a community colleg
By: Digital Man to Nopants on Sat Jan 20 2024 13:53:44

Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++. The languages have diverged and re-converged a bit over the years (and versions of their standards), but yeah, almost any experienced C++ programmer can program in C, though they often groan about it. :-)

I think the thing that put me off learning C is the 1001 different compile options for gcc. If you're going to be working on more portable open source projects then there's a whole subset of stuff you problem need to know like the autoconf tools and the like.

The code will run faster but I'm happy just to rip off a bit of perl and be done with it. no compilation, no makes files.

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You can be fine with ANSI C, The C programming language 2nd ED and tcc for most software from https://codemadness.org , git://bitreich.org and https://2f30.org
These are tons of small minimalist tools for anything. I love sacc for gopher and catpoint/pointtools. And hurl it's my default http/s and gopher downloader with a little script to download files per arg with 'basename'.
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Re: Re: Taking a community colleg
By: anthk to All on Sat Mar 22 2025 02:32:11

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

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

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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++.

Not quite. C came out in '72 while C++ came out in '85 and is an 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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Re: C Origins
By: Mortar to All on Tue Mar 25 2025 02:11 pm

Re: Re: Taking a community colleg
By: anthk to All on Sat Mar 22 2025 02:32:11

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

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

you reply to the person instead of typing all. you're using the fseditor.
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Re: C Origins
By: MRO to Mortar on Tue Mar 25 2025 09:38 pm

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

you reply to the person instead of typing all. you're using the fseditor.

I don't think their editor matters. I'm pretty sure the person you're directing the message to is prompted by Synchronet before even running the editor.

Nightfox

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

you reply to the person instead of typing all. you're using the fseditor.

Synchronet is a pain in the ass.

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Re: Re: C Origins
By: Shitty to MRO on Thu Jul 17 2025 11:03 pm

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

you reply to the person instead of typing all. you're using the fseditor.

Synchronet is a pain in the ass.

but you have the ability to change it into anything if it's a pain in the
ass to you. i see you're running mystic.

mystic bbs became what those guys said synchronet was. just a bunch of
boring stock boards mostly. on top of that it still doesn't have its own fossil driver, right?

btw, i never got a thank you for getting their domain name back to them.
tacky.
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