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[Steamsteam]

I was speaking to two friends and one said C++ is only for robotics (hes in university studying it right now) and the other (who took a basic C++ course in university awhile ago) said C++ is for both.

They are both pretty smart but clearly they both cant be rite? Anyone know the answer for sure?

[artificial]

Neither C, nor C++ was actually designed for game programming. They are general programming languages.
Nowadays, C++ is the most common language in game development industry for it is object-oriented. This feature makes it very attractive.
C is usually used when the application has to be extremely fast and the programmer doesn't want to use assembly. :P No, seriously: C is often used in OS development. It is low-level, but still way more readable than assembly (of course, one needs assembly for the bootloader etc., but the rest is usually written in C).

[Steamsteam]

Thanks for the fast reply ;) Helps a ton ;D