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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!matt
  2. From: matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: Survey: File Extensio
  5. Date: 14 Dec 92 20:59:01
  6. Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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  9. Message-ID: <MATT.92Dec14205901@physics.berkeley.edu>
  10. References: <389.412.uupcb@hpbs938.boi.hp.com>
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  13. In-reply-to: mike.quinlan%phant@hpbs938.boi.hp.com's message of 14 Dec 92 18:18:00 GMT
  14.  
  15. In article <389.412.uupcb@hpbs938.boi.hp.com> mike.quinlan%phant@hpbs938.boi.hp.com (Mike Quinlan)  writes:
  16.  
  17. > 
  18. >     Why not use .c++ for c++ programs?
  19.  
  20. Because, like .C, this is not possible for users of certain operating
  21. systems.
  22.  
  23. There really isn't much reason that we have to standardize on any one
  24. extension; editors and compilers ought to be able to cope with
  25. whatever the user chooses.
  26. --
  27. Matthew Austern                   Just keep yelling until you attract a
  28. (510) 644-2618                    crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
  29. austern@lbl.bitnet                faction, an army!  If you don't have any
  30. matt@physics.berkeley.edu         solutions, become a part of the problem!
  31.