Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!echrzanowski
From: echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu (Edward Chrzanowski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: filenames for C++
Message-ID: <18519@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 88 12:26:08 GMT
References: <724@acornrc.UUCP>, <1531@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <1988Apr24.085957.8413@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1988Apr24.085957.8413@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> >	.C	??	AT&T
> >	.c	.h	Guideleines
> >	.cc	??	Gnu
> >	.cxx	.hxx	Advantage
> >	.cpp	.hpp	Zortech
> 
> Of these, I would say that Gnu's .cc is the clear winner.  It is not case-
> sensitive, it distinguishes C++ code from C code, and within those
> constraints it is the shortest (i.e. it infringes least on the name space
> on systems with limited filename length) and the easiest to type.

Here at the University of Waterloo we alredy use the .cc extension.  There are
no conflicts.  All it took was a couple of changes to the shell script.  For
compiling we use "ccc" for c++ programs.