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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Other programming languages (Was: Command line globber/tokenizer
 library for C?)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 01:37:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:50:11 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:

> 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.

No it wasn’t. OO was an entirely new feature, with no counterpart in C, so 
there was nothing to maintain “backwards compatibility” with.