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From: pal@calmasd.GE.COM (Peter Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C++ file name extensions
Message-ID: <2757@calmasd.GE.COM>
Date: 5 May 88 17:27:30 GMT
Organization: GE Calma, San Diego R&D.
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Keywords: C++ file name extensions


Someone asked recently: what should C++ file name extension be?

How about using the same extensions as C. The intention of Bjourn Stroustroup
as stated in the beginning of his book is that the C++ language is fully
upward compatable with C. Users should be replacing their C compilers with
C++ compilers. This may not be happening immediately because of various
temporary difficulties but it is obviously the direction of the future.
Implementors should not be locking users into maintaining two compilers and
their associated intricacies with 'make' etc. when one compiler will do.

Pete Lawrence.

ps. dont flame on me because c++ is only a preprocessor and is handycapped
compared to a 'real' C compiler, this is not true, there are real C++
compilers available now, and symbolic debuggers; or because C++ is not truely
upward compatable with C, if that is true flame on to Bjourn about it.
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