Make Names out of Words
I am still annoyed with Bjarne Stroustrup for naming his C-with-classes
C++ rather than D, P, C2, or Objectastic-C. It isn’t just that no-one
seems to have been able to decide whether C++ code files should be
called foo.cpp, foo.cxx, foo.cc, or foo.C, it is hard to
punctuate sentences mentioning it, and that you end up with names like
C++/CLI, and so on. What makes it worse is that it inspires people to
name their languages things like [incr Tcl], C# (which is spelled C#
but pronounced C♯), and Cω. To say nothing of More
Th<n, Yahoo!, Samsung Ch@t 335, etc.
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