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- From: rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin)
- Subject: Re: Survey: File Extension
- Message-ID: <rmartin.724427620@thor>
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- References: <1992Dec12.014834.926@netcom.com> <1992Dec12.191011.20258@news.uit.no>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:53:40 GMT
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- bjoerns@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Bjoern Stabell) writes:
-
- >Was .cpp the original C++ extension?
-
- I don't think so. The first edition of "The C++ Programming language"
- in 1986 used the file extension: ".c". I think is explains why there
- is now such confusion about file extentions. We werent willing to
- have C++ programs use the same extension that our C programs used.
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