[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/23/2023 3:28 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 8:05:34 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, February 17, 2023 at 1:35:57 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>>>> C++ <<<<
>>>
>>> IF THAT ISN'T A PROMOTION OF C OVER DIBOL I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS ...
>> Er, Bob, C and C++ are two very, very, different languages.
> 
> I HELPED MY SON WITH C++ AND C# IN COLLEGE ... SAME OLD C SAME OLD COMPILER/DEBUGGER ISSUES

C and C++ are very different languages. Most C code will compile and
run as expected when compiled with a C++ compiler, but C++ is
so much more than C - and a writing C code for a C++ course
should give a very low grade.

And C# is not like C at all. Besides using curly braces and
having the 3 arg for loop then I do not see much similarity.

Just compare the hello worlds:

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
     printf("Hello world!\n");
     return 0;
}

VS:

using System;

public class HelloWorld
{
     public static void Main(string[] args)
     {
         Console.WriteLine("Hello world!");
     }
}

(C# pre-V9.0)

Arne