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		Retric on April 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C Finally Gets A New Standard Yea, after looking into it they don't seem to be completely compatible anymore. I have known many people to use a C++ compiler when writing C code, but it looks like that restricts you to a subset of C. They do try and stay reasonably consistent so for example Long Long moved from C to C++. And C99 has reduced some other incompatibilities by incorporating C++ features such as // comments and mixed declarations and code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B

Someone on April 10, 2012 [–]

"I have known many people to use a C++ compiler when writing C code, but it looks like that restricts you to a subset of C."

Many C++ compilers actually are C/C++ compilers that decide what language to compile depending on command line flags and/or file name extension.

Retric on April 11, 2012 | [–]

Ahh, ok now that explains a lot, thanks.

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