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- From: wayne@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Wayne McKeen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: GCC - help needed!
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:45:27 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., University of Adelaide
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- C++ is essentially a superset of C. With a few execeptions, C code will
- compile as is with a C++ compiler. Furthermore, anything which can be
- done in C++ can also be done in C (indeed most C++ 'compilers' translate
- the C++ code to C, and then use a standard C compiler to do the rest).
- However, C++ is an object-oriented language, and (in my opinion) is an improvement over C. I would suggest the following as a reference manual:
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- "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" by Ellis, M.A., and Stroustrup, B.
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- Although it is not the best learning aid. Another book:
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- "The C++ Programming Language", bye Stroustrup, B.
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- may be more suitable.
-
- --
- Wayne.
- (wayne@cs.adelaide.edu.au)
-