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by msla 19 days ago
> IMO, if c++/cfront didn't ride on the tails of c, I'm skeptical it would've seen widespread use

Obviously. C++ was a "better C" in that you could keep a lot of your "legacy" C code while improving your codebase piecemeal with C++ features. Your management didn't even have to care, in that C/C++ was accepted as a valid descriptor even by people who should have known better. It's a wonder Java/C# and Perl/PHP never caught on.

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Nowadays I got into the habit of saying C++ was C's Typescript.