Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!enea!pvab!robert From: robert@pvab.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: .cc isn't so great Message-ID: <240@pvab.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 08:16:09 GMT References: <6041@well.UUCP> <566@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <8076@elsie.UUCP> Organization: Statskonsult Programvaruhuset AB, Sweden Lines: 8 > > We just use .cxx and .hxx, which is the Glockenspiel standard. The > > "x's" are just little pluses turned 45 degrees :-). > > Okay, I'll bite: why not just ".c++" and ".h++"? Because some (most?) operating systems except for UNIX will not let you use anything but alpha-numeric ones. And most are case-insensitive, too.