re: #137 Belafon

That’s funny. The short form: C is an older language that was a nicer form off assembly language, which is basically the machine instructions written in text. C++ derived from C and added some features to make solving problems closer to the way we think about them. And while the original version of C++ basically translated down to C, it’s not easy for people to do, and would take more experience than high school kids would have.

Heh. As a old unixen person, C++ is best viewed as a compiler that will check your code better than lint ever did. I’ve never used any of the fancy OO features of C++ but I can and have run my C code through the C++ compiler for better run-time checking.

But then, C or C++ is just ASM macros any way. Real programs are written in LISP (whistles innocently)