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From: bs@alice.UucP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
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Subject: How to pronounce C++
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 19:43:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 19:43:07 1986
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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> From: larry@JPL-VLSI.ARPA
> Newsgroups: net.lang.c
>
> One thing that Stroustrup's book hasn't cleared up for me is:
> HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE C++?  (I DON'T like C-inc; too close to Sink.
> And Isn't C-Plus taken?)
> 
> From: dm@BBN-VAX.ARPA
> 
> 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.

I guess I unintensionally created a mystery. C++ is pronounced ``C plus plus''.
I forgot to put that in the book, but it is actually there if you look carefully.
Addison Wesley put it on the library of congress ``information card'' on the
back of the title page.

The Orwell book is good as a puzzle and as a warning to overzealous language
designers, but not as a guide to real life pronounciation.

	- Bjarne Stroustrup (AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill)