> Someone started the thread by complaining about there are
 > too many "competent" C++ programmers who are using C++ to
 > write C code, and have very little or no understanding of
 > the object oriented paradigm.

Indeed. :-(  As moderator of C_PLUSPLUS, this is a battle I wage constantly
("straight  C" topics are regarded as off-topic since that's
already covered in C_ECHO). It seems most of the newbies don't even
understand the difference, let alone know what "object oriented"
means, other than it having "something to do with classes" (which
is incorrect in itself anyway). sigh.


 > This was (not any more ) my concern when MS and Borland started
 > bundling the two compilers in one package a few years back. I have seen
 > too many messages which clearly indicated that the posters did not know
 > the differences between C and C++ 

Get 'em all the time in C_PLUSPLUS. It's part of the FAQ.

 > PLEASE don't be offended). Personally, I think that they are two
 > completely different languages and should be treated as such.

Absolutely.

If you're going to use the OOP paradym, you need to go all the way. You're
just adding bulk if you start mixing the two. Mixing stdio C and iostreams
is usually unsupported anyway.

Sorry, it's probably the purist in me speaking, but I feel fairly strongly
about this. Most C++ newbies complain about how much C++ adds to the size
of their executable, and most of them don't realise why - half the time it
is their own coding style, and using C++ "like a C compiler"  can
definitely have that effect. How can you expect to reuse code unless you
use inheritence, for example?

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