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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: James Kuyper Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Other programming languages (Was: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:50:11 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:50:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b9f23d9775bb33ffcb5ee1acd65e24f2"; logging-data="505788"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18cAHw9ApxhyPCnE4/zm7SnkXajVDVXw1I=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qrJL2ksRsyDKRmx9g2lJ1E+LoJg= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1872 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.