C, c++?

[En_Fuego]

Well because in SC2 they're using a new scripting language called Galaxy, which according to Blizzard is a lot like C, I was wondering if C and C++ were all that different?

I don't know much about either of them, other than that C++ was first created as an extension of C and has since then evolved.

The reason I'm asking is because I'm taking Computer Programming this upcoming year and it deals with C++.

I want to know if I should bother learning C from scratch now or if C and C++ are similar enough to understand without learning much.

 

[PurplePoot]

C++ is technically backwards compatible with C (Although it doesn't implement C99 features yet to my knowledge, and it has the obvious problem of c names being reserved keywords in C++), but extends C with templates, classes (Which are really just structs with pretty method syntax and privacy), and a whole bunch of other precompiler magic.

 

[En_Fuego]

So if I learned C++, basically I'd know C but with a lot other things that are only associated with C++ and I'd miss out on a few things associated with C?

 

[PurplePoot]

You'd miss out on quite a bit associated with C, as C++ is generally oriented at higher level development than pure C and so you probably wouldn't be talking about details such as registers.

 

[En_Fuego]

Hmmm ok. I wonder if I mis-read that pamphlet. It sounds like it'll be C rather than C++...

Thanks!