Xero

Ive never programmed in C before. How much different is it from C++ and the different applications its more commonly used for?

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Broax

as far as I know C++ is more OO and therefore more easy then C... but who am I to say anything? I can barely pogram more then your nick... ;

But I see that these ziggys are catching up in here.. lol

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Mjordan2nd

Yup. It's more OO.

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Xero

but are there any benifits of C over C++?

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Mjordan2nd

I'm not positive on this, so don't take my word for it, but I believe that C code is a little faster, at least in it's basic form. C does math and stuff faster.

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Tama

>How much different is it from C++
It depends on how you use C++, how you use C, and what features unique to either you stick to. C and C++ can be virtually identical, or completely different.

>but are there any benifits of C over C++?
The only way to answer that question is to learn them both thoroughly, use them both for projects, and then come to your own conclusion.

bl00dninja

like the idea of "inheritance" C++ is a "superset" of C, not neccessarily something completely different. although it has some different basic libraries you can go ahead and use <stdio.h> in a C++ program if it strikes your fancy. you can write C code in C++. OOP is more for real-world abstraction and code-reusability. ever notice how in a particular video game series, there may be striking similarites between a lot of the sequels (how the player moves, etc.) all they had to do was use the old code for those objects, which by the nature of C++ was simpler to do than it would have been had those object been written procedurally in C, where the separation between the piece of code that you want to use again might not have been quite as well-defined. it's a lot easier to just grab the file that has the "bad guy" class, and make minor changes to their apperance or behavior, then hunt through thousands of lines of code for the functions and crap that would have made them act that way. shit, i have to crossmatch six units of blood for the e.r. now, catch ya'll later...

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thechristelegacy

c++ is much more OOP and it has features that it takes years to fully understand.

bl00dninja

that stupid b#*%h in the e.r. was fine. i wasted like an hour crossmatching all that blood when i could have been playing dynomite on
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Infinite Recursion

Anything in C, you can do in C++ but with more overkill.

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