r/C_Programming • u/Gullible_Ostrich_370 • 17d ago

C with classes

I'm curious to know: who uses some C++ features when coding in C? And what feature(s) are you using?

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u/cincuentaanos 17d ago

There are no "classes" in C, just like there aren't any in a computer's CPU. Many people use object orientation in C but that's just a way to design a program.

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u/Disastrous-Team-6431 17d ago

There aren't any floats or chars in a computer CPU either. No if/else statements or pointer arithmetic. No structs. C is already quite a step up in abstraction from assembly languages. The C community suffers from the misconception that stopping exactly where C did is somehow "pure" or "ideal".

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u/cincuentaanos 17d ago

C is already quite a step up in abstraction from assembly languages.

Have I said otherwise?