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.
Perhaps that is one reason I sat on the ANSII X3J11 committee for 2 years.
Tore me up when I had to quit due to my workload. Wish I could remember all
that stuff now days.
On 11/27/06, Micah DesJardins <
micahdj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The only thing I would add to Ted's answer is that C++ adds support
> for object oriented programming. C has no concept of classes,
> instances, methods etc. It is pure procedural programming. OO
> programming gets all the press these days, but a lot of your favorite
> open source projects are written in good old fashioned C. (For speed,
> portability or historical reasons)
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