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- From: dak@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Survey: File Extension
- Date: 14 Dec 92 22:37:47 GMT
- Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
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- bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes:
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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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- And small wonder. All the people I know, when reading a program loud,
- say "i plus plus", "plus plus i", and not "i postincremented" or
- "i preincremented" for i++ and ++i.
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- Maybe the language was pronounced in one stage of development
- "c dot operator plus plus open-paren zero close-paren" ? Ain't
- that a worthy suggestion?
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