From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: C++, fonts and Allegro Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:53:46 +0200 Organization: NetVision Israel Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3905CD9A.44D273D0@is.elta.co.il> References: <8dfmoo$1ga6$1 AT gavrilo DOT mtu DOT ru> <38fb861d DOT 46140079 AT news DOT freeserve DOT net> <432bgs0gehb8vrjd9ealhemeipdhl3dih9 AT 4ax DOT com> <3905aaec DOT 22444643 AT news DOT freeserve DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ras1-p74.rvt.netvision.net.il Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.netvision.net.il 956678006 27070 62.0.172.76 (25 Apr 2000 15:53:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT netvision DOT net DOT il NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Apr 2000 15:53:26 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ru,hebrew To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Steamer wrote: > > Chris Mears wrote: > > >>IMHO it's bad practice to write C that won't compile as C++, > >>but it's certainly possible. > > > >What? Pick a language, and stick with it. C is *not* C++. > > But it takes very little effort to ensure that a C program compiles > as C++. Actually, there are some things that are impossible to write so that they compile in both C and C++. Admittedly, such cases are rare, but they do exist. These are simply two different languages.