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Why is C++ preferred over C for commercial applications? [closed]

I program in C mostly. However, it is pretty obvious that many more commercial applications are done in C++. As far as I can tell, C++ is a very complex language, with seemingly convoluted syntax and ...
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Object-Oriented Programming With ANSI-C [closed]

I am trying to expand my understanding the history and involvement of OOP. Recently I have been looking into OOP in ANSI-C, which is described in Object-Oriented Programming With ANSI-C by Axel ...
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good literature for teaching object oriented thinking in C [closed]

Quite often C is the primary platform for the development. And when things are large scale, I have seen partitioning of the system as different objects is quite a natural thing. Some or many of the ...
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Learning OO for a C Programmer [closed]

I've been programming professionally in C, and only C, for around 10 years in a variety of roles. As would be normal to expect, I understand the idioms of the language fairly well and beyond that ...
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Make use of design patterns in C?

Design patterns are useful for object oriented languages. But how can a non-object-oriented language such as C make of use them?
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Objects in non-OOP languages

Can we use the word "object" for data / functions in e.g. C (or Pascal) which doesn't really have objects? In C, what is an object? A data structure? A named memory area? I spoke to my collegue about ...
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What makes C so popular in the age of OOP?

I code a lot in both C and C++, but did not expect C to be the second most popular language, slightly behind Java. TIOBE Programming Community Index I'm curious as to why, in this age of OOP, C is ...
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Roadblock-confused about structure of program

I'm new to programming, and I'm working in C. I know that this is structured programming but if I use blocks, say for local variables: { int i; for(i=0; i<25; i++){ printf("testing...\n"); ...
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What are C's advantages over OOP languages, other than performance? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: When to use C over C++, and C++ over C? C still has its own importance in the programming world! And one reason for it is its performance. But, I have some questions. ...
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What's the benefit of object-oriented programming over procedural programming?

I'm trying to understand the difference between procedural languages like C and object-oriented languages like C++. I've never used C++, but I've been discussing with my friends on how to ...
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What are the typical naming conventions for OO C public and private functions?

Short Question Is there a typical way to name 'public' and 'private' members of an OO C project? Background I fully understand that public and private members do not really exist in the C language. ...
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Do simple accessors and mutators benefit from commented block headers?

Short Question Is it necessary to add the function header comments for simple accessors and mutators? Example u8 OBJ_get_state_x(void) {return obj.state_x;} void OBJ_set_state_x(u8 x) ...
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How can I feel more confident about my programming skills? [closed]

Programming isn't alien to me. I first starting doing markup (HTML, now please don't laugh at me) when I was 12 and a little bit of BASIC when I was 13 (I knew much about Flowcharts, Pseudocodes at ...
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Where, in an object oriented system should you, if at all, choose (C-style) structs over classes?

C and most likely many other languages provide a struct keyword for creating structures (or something in a similar fashion). These are (at least in C), from a simplified point of view like classes, ...
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When is C a better choice than C++? [closed]

I can't imagine that there's any reason not to use the OOP features of C++. It's is just as fast as C, and - what's more important to me - it's transparent, just as C. (I mean "transparent" that I ...
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When C handles pop in your C++ code and break your pretty OO-design

I'm posting this question to externalize my utmost recent dismay with programming, but it is still a question nevertheless. Today I can't picture myself doing things without thinking about ...