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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: best extension for C++ source files
Message-ID: <2666@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 90 18:06:54 GMT
References: <124@tdatirv.UUCP>
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <124@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
<	Is there any consnsus yet on what extension to use for C++ source
<files? I have seen '.C', '.cpp', '.cxx, '.cc', and even '.c'!  Is there
<any favorite, and is any of these used by more than one C++ compiler?

.cpp is used by:
	Zortech C++
	Borland C++
	Guidelines C++

.C is not very useful, because it doesn't work on case-insensitive
operating systems (like DOS and OS/2).

.c makes it difficult to distinguish between C and C++ source files
in makefiles.