Re: Practical applications on C++

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:58:32 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 20, 9:03 am, ManicQin <Manic...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jul 18, 12:50 am, Mirco Wahab <wahab-m...@gmx.de> wrote:

Well I don't want to make you look too far, or at
something you won't have seen. How about Windows?


If you think of Windows 5 (2000/XP), than
that's almost entirely written in C, only
some marginal modules are written in C++.


It's a problem identifying system that were written in C++.
You can use a C++ compiler without using templates\classes.
You can use a C++ compiler without using OO.
So what is considered a "pure" C++ system?
I know that most of the systems in my company are
Hybrids of C++ and C how can you classify them?


As hybrids of C++ and C?

I'm not sure what all this business of "if you don't use X, it's
not C++" is supposed to mean. That <vector> isn't C++, because
it doesn't use polymorphism? C++ provides a very large number
of features, to support many different paradigms. If you don't
use some feature, because some other paradigm is more
appropriate for the problem, you're still using C++.

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