C++ Coding standards


		C++ compilers Coding standards in this course Because many older compilers do not understand some of the lastest ANSI C++ additions to the language, the code in this course is specifically written to compile on both new and old compilers. For this reason, we'll continue to use the `.h` suffix for libraries named in `#include` statements. In addition, we will not use namespaces, since only the most recent compilers support them. The C and C++ programming languages are closely related. C++ grew out of C and is mostly a superset of the C Programming Language. C code is often developed with C++ IDEs, integrated with C++ code, and compiled in C++ compilers. While most C source code will compile as C++ code without any changes, certain language differences prevent C++ from being a strict superset of C. C++ introduces many features that are not available in C — C++ code is not valid C code. Here, however, we focus on differences that cause valid C code to be invalid C++ code, or to be valid in both languages but to behave differently in C and C++.