In article <3cadb44a$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Sir Charles W. Shults III" <aic### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:

>     C is up to 4 plusses, arranged two above and two below.  This is now a
> "sharp" character in music terms, and is shown as "C#".   Next will be CH
> (hyper) and C$ (C expensive) and C% (works mostly).  Maybe.

C++: based on C, and originally purely a superset of C. It now has a few 
differences, but is pretty much C with objects, templates, and a few 
other extensions...you can still use the C standard library, for 
example. The ++ part comes from the C "increment" operator. C++ is a 
standardized language.

Objective-C: Purely a superset of C, basically a Smalltalk-like object 
system and runtime that goes on top of C (or C++). Not standardized, but 
has been in use for many years.

C#: some Java-clone Microsoft came up with. Similar to C in the same way 
Java is similar to C. As far as I can tell, it only exists for Microsoft 
.NET and as a way to kill Java. Apparently in the process of being 
standardized, and is now outside of Microsoft's control, but really 
isn't a C any more than Java is. I'm comparing it with Java a lot...that 
would be because nearly everything I've seen about it compares it with 
Java. This is the one I know the least about, anyone know of some 
websites with good technical info on it and how it compares to other 
languages?

Followup-To povray.off-topic.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
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