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From: poetry@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (David Goodman)
Date: Mon, 21-Dec-87 14:09:09 EST
Message-ID: <1987Dec21.140909.15179@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ source file names
References: <593@inria.UUCP> <396@grand.UUCP>
Reply-To: poetry@gpu.utcs.UUCP (i.e.)
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Keywords: .C versus .c

In article <396@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes:
>
>Now is the time to do this right, even though it may annoy
>present C++ users.  Their annoyance avoided now will be
>dwarfed by the pain of 50 times more future users.  (As in
>most cases in the sorry history of computers.)
>

Bravo!  Well argued.  Look at what's happening to C.  After ten or so
years, ANSI and the lunatic fringe are practically changing the language.


>P.S.  Who are the FSF people?

I wonder, too.


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