The way I see it (my personal opinion) is that they included these C libraries in the C++ only to make the TRANSITION for all those C programmers easier, because in the past C was the dominating language in comparison to C++ and they didnt want the programming community to refuse migrating to c++....
Rationalize it however you want, the standard C library is included in standard C++.
>Nevertheless I prefer and try to use C++ characteristics.
That's fine. C++ is designed to support different programming philosophies.
>merge the C++ and C forums in one forum in this site
>since all these C libraries were included in the C++ standard
What a stupid comment. As long as I can write a program (without using libraries) that compiles and works as intended in C and fails to compile or fails to work correctly in C++, I will advocate two forums.
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