Originally Posted by
Elkvis
they would certainly be different programs at that point. the relevant question is not how long the compiler takes to build the program. it's much more important how long it takes to write the code. I'd say that, given a task, and two programmers - one fluent in C, and the other in C++, with both programmers required to write their own code for anything not covered by the standard library, the C++ programmer will likely finish long before the C programmer. any extra time required to compile the code is irrelevant at this point, because even after building, the C++ programmer is still likely to have finished first.