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C and C++ Programming Languages

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Dennis Ritchie developed the C programming language at Bell Labs in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and it became a popular general-purpose programming language. It is used for both systems programming and in application development and is widely used in industry. The language provides high-level and low-level capabilities, and the language is portable in that a C program written in ANSI C may be compiled for a very wide variety of computer platforms and operating systems (with minimal changes to the source code). C++ is an object-oriented extension of the C programming language, and it was designed to use the power of object-oriented programming and to maintain the speed and portability of C. It provides a significant extension of C’s capabilities, but it does not force the programmer to use the object-oriented features of the language.

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Notes

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    One common error in C programs is writing “=" instead of "==.” This totally alters the meaning of the statement.

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    The semicolon in Pascal is used as a statement separator, whereas it is used as a statement terminator in C.

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    It is easy to write a one line C program that is incomprehensible. The maintenance of poorly written code is a challenge unless programmers follow good programming practice. This discipline needs to be enforced by formal reviews of the source code.

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  • Kernighan B, Ritchie D (1978) The C programming language, 1st edn. Prentice Hall Software Series, Englewood Cliffs

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  • Stroustrup B (2013) C++ programming language, 4th edn. Addison Wesley, Upper Saddle River

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    Gerard O’Regan

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O’Regan, G. (2018). C and C++ Programming Languages. In: The Innovation in Computing Companion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02619-6_14

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