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From: keffer@blake.acs.washington.edu (Thomas Keffer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: extern "language" (was: C --> C++)
Keywords: Suffixes
Message-ID: <1950@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 20:22:35 GMT
References: <2857@pegasus.ATT.COM> <2858@pegasus.ATT.COM> <1969@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Reply-To: keffer@ocean.washington.edu (Thomas Keffer)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1969@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>
>It's case sensitive, according to Bjarne's wishes. Thus, it's:
>	"C"
>	"C++"
>	"Pascal"	// Capitalized 'cuz C and C++ are
>Let's be consistent from the outset, to avoid silly annoyances.
>I'll be so bold as to also propose:
>	"Fortran"
>for those compilers so capable. Let's all avoid the mess that #pragma's
>are sinking into.

While we're at it, how about a standard suffix for C++ source code?  I
propose ".cxx" (as used by Oasys).  Anything but CC's ".C" which cannot
be distinguised from ".c" on MS-DOS machines.

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