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The subset that is the interception of both? which would be a subset of C. (Although I am pretty sure that wasn't what the author had in mind)

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Bjarne has always maintained that C++ is (mostly) backwards compatible with C. And that's what most people mean by C/C++.

I know that C++ is mostly, but not entirely, backwards compatible with C. That doesn't answer the question of what "C/C++" means.

They're two different languages. The problem is that different people mean different things by "C/C++". Some people mean "C and C++"; others just seem to be unaware that they're distinct.

Cheerp, like clang (upon which it is based), can compile both C and C++ files.

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