[Bf-committers] C++ Migration

[Douglas Toltzman]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Austin Benesh wrote:

> Are we ever going to consider a massive migration from C to C++? C is
> quickly being outdated. What are we going to do when it goes obsolete? I
> believe this is one of the more serious issues on our hands.

If C becomes obsolete, then C++ must also become obsolete, since C++ is a
superset of C.  You can have C without C++, but you can't have C++ without
C.  It would seem that C would be the least common denominator, making it
the safer choice.

Douglas Toltzman