Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!scherzo!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!dm@BBN-VAX.ARPA From: dm@BBN-VAX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C++ vs. Objective-C Message-ID: <2008@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 00:01:00 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.2008 Posted: Sun Mar 23 00:01:00 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 05:07:30 EST Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 5 How is C++ pronounced? Stroustroup, in the introduction to his book on C++, suggests that one see the appendix to Orwell's 1984 for a more negative analysis of the name of the program, which leads me to believe it is called C-double-plus, as in double-plus-good.