C VS C++

[ggicollegepunjab]

Hello,



Guys, Please anyone tell me,
What is the difference between C and C++ ??







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[keskiverto]

What do you know about them already?

[kbw]

C provides support for procedural programming.
C++ additionally provides support for object oriented programming and user defined types.

[writetonsharma]

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[Aceix]

C++ is a better C. It has amazing features like OOP.

Aceix.

[Peter87]

OOP is not a feature. You can do OOP in C but C++ has a lot of features that makes OOP easier.

[kbw]

The sockets library is an example of an object oriented library written in C. The user is required to cast data structures back to sockaddr*, but you never actually use one. It's pretty bewildering to most folk, even long term users.

All of that is because C does not support the paradigm. So there is no language enforcement of concepts making it difficult to understand and difficult to use.

With C++, such an OO library can rely on the language to catch user type errors and present obvious code.

[MiiNiPaa]

Also virtual functions + inheritance behavior is pain to simulate in C. Because C was not created with OOP in mind and does not support in (not that it cannot be done, just that there isn't anything which helps you with this).
Comparing C and C++ is pointless, because it is different languages. C++ has some backward compatibility with C, but code valid in C can be invalid in C++.
Each of languages has own uses: there isn't many people who will write huge GUI application in plain C, and use of C with microcontrollers is preferred over C++.