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- From: ma@informatik.uni-kiel.de (Martin Ameskamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C++ and George Orwell
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 09:35:35 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Kiel, FRG
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- In <3161E7C1.3F63@homer.ece.ohiou.edu> Sriram Hariharan 09/20/95 <sriram@homer.ece.ohiou.edu> writes:
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- > i was reading thro' Stroustrup's C++ book . he says (in chap 1)
- >,"for yet another interpretation of the name c++, see appendix of
- >orwell's 1984 ". i have read 1984 long time back but cant remember
- >anything about c++. can anyone throw some light on this ?
- >thanks
- >sriram
-
- Hi there
-
- (I tried to mail, but your return address doesn't work)
- It's ages since I've read this myself (I only remember that it was
- before 1984...), but anyway:
- In the appendix, Orwell describes 'Newspeak', which tries to do
- away with redundancy and ambiguity as much as possibly. One of
- the ways of doing this is to reduce comparatives and superlatives
- to simple schemes, using the words (and signs?) plus and doubleplus.
- I only remember the example 'doubleplusungood'.
-
- I don't really think that you'll find something about C in 1984...
-
- Martin
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