I would also add that although C was purely DESIGNED as procedural, a lot of us back then began doing object oriented programming within C.  Would have been a lot easier with C++ but we did not have it then.  The concepts existed and had implementations in other languages, but for a C programmer with existing code it just did not pay to switch languages with C++ coming.  
<br><br>Perhaps that is one reason I sat on the ANSII X3J11 committee for 2 years.&nbsp; Tore me up when I had to quit due to my workload.&nbsp; Wish I could remember all that stuff now days.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/27/06, 
<b class="gmail_sendername">Micah DesJardins</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:micahdj@gmail.com">micahdj@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The only thing I would add to Ted's answer is that C++ adds support<br>for object oriented programming. C has no concept of classes,<br>instances, methods etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is pure procedural programming.&nbsp;&nbsp;OO<br>programming gets all the press these days, but a lot of your favorite
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