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- From: marc@meadow.uucp (Marc Riehm)
- Subject: Re: Survey: File Extension
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.131106.28224@meadow.uucp>
- Reply-To: marc@meadow.UUCP (Marc Riehm)
- Organization: Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
- References: <1gb1h0INNle2@tsavo.hks.com> <78146@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Dec12.014834.926@netcom.com> <24394@alice.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 13:11:06 GMT
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- In article <24394@alice.att.com> bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes:
- >
- >erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith @ Netcom) conjectures:
- >
- > > 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"
- >
- >C++ was always pronounced C plus plus.
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- Yeah? And what makes _you_ so sure? :)
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