I understand C and C++ are different languages but when I was learning C++ I was always told that C is a subset of C++ or C++ is C with classes. And that was quite true until the appearance of C++x0, C++11 (or the modern C++ 11/14/17 in general). In fact (especially when working on embedded systems) it's very likely to find code written in C++ but with a lot of parts written entirely in pure C language. Here I have several questions:
- Should I stop using the term C/C++?
- If the answer to #1 is yes, how would I call a program that use a mix of C and C++?
- Given that both of them are 'different' languages is it likely that at some point C++ compilers stop supporting code written in the C language (since modern c++ is diverging from the C mentality for basic stuff like pointers, dynamic memory handling, etc)
- Is there right now any collaboration between the people who makes the standards of C/C++ to keep the compatibility
- If #4 is yes, such collaboration could end up in the near future with the appearance of the modern c++ (11/14/17)
I know that there already similar questions, but I'm sure that a lot of people share these questions so I'm very interested to get good answers especially for the points that have to do with the C++ tendency in the near future.
