On Thursday, 98/12/03, Wayne Steele wrote to David Noon about "OS/2 C++
Programming?" as follows:

Hi Wayne,

WS>  DN> There is a major leap in technology from C to C++. Your approach
WS>  DN> to programming in C++ is somewhat different from that of
WS>  DN> programming in C; not all that much different, but enough to
WS>  DN> intimidate many.
WS> 
WS> So is this EMS c or C++?

Yes.

All C++ compilers I have seen, and they are many, contain support for C as
well. EMX falls into this category.

WS> Ah that's alright then... But I guess C++ is C++...

That is rather optimistic, I'm afraid. The C++ grammar supported by EMX is
behind that supported by Watcom 11.x, very roughly the same as that supported
by Watcom 10.x and well ahead of that supported by IBM Visual Age C++. One of
the long standing bugbears of C++ is that every compiler vendor had their own
ideas as to what contituted the C++ language. This is also a tradition
inherited from C.

WS> I would imagine you could get third party addons anyway...

Get the source code, so that you can compile it for whatever compiler you
are using. It is never really safe to link a library compiled by one vendor's
compiler into an executable compiled by another vendor's compiler.

Regards

Dave


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