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- Path: sparky!uunet!taumet!steve
- From: steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage)
- Subject: Re: RESULTS: C++ file extension survey
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.170109.18997@taumet.com>
- Organization: TauMetric Corporation
- References: <1if5q2INN8pj@tsavo.hks.com> <1993Jan7.182757.8297@wam.umd.edu> <1569@nazgul.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:01:09 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan7.182757.8297@wam.umd.edu> krc@wam.umd.edu (Kevin R. Coombes) writes:
- >/It would be really nice if everybody
- >/agreed on some common extension; I'm tired of wrting batch files to
- >/rename things, and shell scripts to build symbolic links when I switch
- >/from one platform to the other.
-
- >Zortech C++ will recognize .cpp, .cxx, .cc and .c++ all as valid C++
- >filename extensions, though our examples all use .cpp.
-
- Not to be outdone, I should say the same is true of Oregon C++, a product
- of my company. We don't discriminate on the basis of file names, as long
- as the extention starts with 'c' or 'C'. Further, you choose C or C++
- compilation with a compiler flag, not via the file name. If you wish to
- choose compilation mode on the basis of file names, you can write that
- into the make file script.
-
- If you are unhappy with the parochial attitude of your C++ compiler,
- complain to the vendor, or switch to a more ecumenical one.
- --
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- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
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