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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: extern "language" (was: C --> C++)
Message-ID: <674@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 10 May 89 04:56:37 GMT
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In article <JEFFB.89May8141340@grace.cs.washington.edu>, jeffb@grace.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden) writes:
> In article <1950@blake.acs.washington.edu> keffer@blake.acs.washington.edu (Thomas Keffer) writes:

> >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.

> Why not go all the way and use ".c++" or ".C++"?
> ... Of course, I have no idea whether or not the fascist MS-DOS
> file system will allow "+" signs in filenames

Neither DOS nor VMS allows "+" characters in file names, so why not do like
Zortech, Oregon s/w and some other company whose name I forgot and use .cpp?

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