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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Other programming languages (Was: Command line globber/tokenizer
 library for C?)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:50:11 -0400
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On 9/12/24 18:32, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:40:17 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> 
>> A lot of early C++ programs I've seen were just, umm, "enhanced" "C"
>> programs.
> 
> Given that C++ makes “virtual” optional instead of standard behaviour, I’d 
> say that C++ is in fact designed to be used that way.

Like many other aspects of C++, that was dictated by a necessity of
remaining a certain minimum level of backwards compatibility with
existing C code. You shouldn't draw any larger conclusions from that choice.