Post by thread:OT: Re: What's the difference between 'C' and 'C++

The difference is, that there is no C++ compiler for PICs, while there is more than one C compiler. The technical difference is, that C++ is an object oriented hack (read: improvement) of C, which may be better than C in the right hands, on the right platform, with the right compiler, and the right libraries. As a rule of thumb, compiled C++ code requires more code-space than compiled C code, which makes C++ a distinct loser against C in small embedded systems, such as PICs, and many others. If you would like to know what bandwidth others have wasted about this before (plenty), ask a web search engine, instructing it to search in news archives, and if you would like to start a 200-message thread, ask the question in the comp.lang.c newsgroup. Sorry for being blunt, I'm tired. Peter