Jan Claeys wrote:
Op za, 09-09-2006 te 13:49 -0700, schreef Radenski, Atanas:
Bjarne Stroustrup was educated in the Simula tradition and recognized the benefits of objects, so he decided to improve C by adding objects. Most notably, Stroustrup preferred compatible design in his transition from C to C++. Indeed, C programs are C++ programs as well.
That's not true and mr. Stroustrups own books explain how and why; even basic C programs might be invalid as C++ programs (or they work different in C than in C++, which is even worse).
Strictly speaking this is true, but Mr. Stroustrups own papers also explain how important the full C/C++ compatibility is - and that achieving it is his ideal (sect. 5 in this paper): http://www.research.att.com/~bs/compat_short.pdf