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- From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Survey: File Extension
- Message-ID: <24394@alice.att.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 14:21:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24394
- References: <1gb1h0INNle2@tsavo.hks.com> <78146@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Dec12.014834.926@netcom.com>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith @ Netcom) conjectures:
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- > I think ... the name
- > C++ wasn't originally intended to be pronounced "see plus plus", as the
- > ++ operator was originally called the increment operator, and a lot of
- > C programmers considered people who called it "plus plus" to be
- > uneducated. But that has gradually changed over the years, and now the
- > majority calls C++ "see plus plus"
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- C++ was always pronounced C plus plus.
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