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>I suggest to people is to stop thinking that C++ is a superset of C. It is, but let’s forget that.

Hard to take any article seriously that makes such a glaring and naive point. C++ is not a superset of C and if the author really knew the language well, he would not make this point.

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In my post I suggested to watch a presentation. Watch it, you'll understand what Kate Gregory argues, and I completely agree with her point of view.

I will watch it, thanks. But that won't change the fact that C++ is not at all a superset of the C language, they are genuinely different languages. Objective-C however is technically a strict superset of C. All C code runs as expected in Objective-C. This is not true in C++ where the same C code might compile and produce different output when run in a C++ context, or that several C idioms are not possible in C++.

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