Changes and extensions in the C family of languages

Authors:
Roger E. Lessman
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Tennessee Technological University
Venue:
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
Year:
1989

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Abstract

Some very important current developments are taking place within the C family of programming languages. Via the ANSI C Standard, extensions to C provide for stricter type-checking, better control of portability, and improved efficiency at run-time. The C++ language has further enhanced C to support data abstraction and inheritance. This paper briefly summarizes some of the C extensions which result from the ANSI C Standard and which will become important to courses which utilize C as a programming vehicle and as the subject for the study of the block-structured programming paradigm.