Comments on: Why do you use C instead of C++? http://wolfhalton.info/2009/09/20/why-do-you-use-c-instead-of-c/ What You Need to Know Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:45:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ?ukasz Krawczyk http://wolfhalton.info/2009/09/20/why-do-you-use-c-instead-of-c/comment-page-1/#comment-1024 ?ukasz Krawczyk Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:16:47 +0000 http://wolfhalton.info/?p=179#comment-1024 C is not a functional language, it's imperative one. Functional is not a synonym for procedural. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming Object oriented and procedural paradigms are orthogonal in context of C language family, you can write object oriented code in C(you just won't have syntax for it) as well as purely procedural code in C++. Finally, the difference in speed between those two languages is caused primarily because C++ code tends to be more abstract, which leads to situations when it cannot be effectively optimized by compiler(memory aliasing trough pointers), so it is not only matter of using dynamic binding(polymorphism). C is not a functional language, it’s imperative one. Functional is not a synonym for procedural.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming

Object oriented and procedural paradigms are orthogonal in context of C language family, you can write object oriented code in C(you just won’t have syntax for it) as well as purely procedural code in C++.

Finally, the difference in speed between those two languages is caused primarily because C++ code tends to be more abstract, which leads to situations when it cannot be effectively optimized by compiler(memory aliasing trough pointers), so it is not only matter of using dynamic binding(polymorphism).

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