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To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/c++ Makefile 
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Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 05:59:51 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
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OK, I guess it's a less controversial change than I thought - I figured
for sure somebody'd be yelling "namespace pollution!" :-)

If there are no objections to it then, I see no problem with it going
into 2.2.

> "David E. O'Brien" wrote:
> > > Digital Unix does this as well.  IMHO it's bogus, but it does have a 
> > > pretty substantial precedent. 8(
> > 
> > As does Sun, HP, AT&T (cfront).  Thus most of the commerical Unix's call
> > their C++ compiler by ``CC''.  None of the ones I looked at had ``c++''.
> 
> Even ``the book'' (The C++ Programming Language) uses 'CC' in all their
> examples..
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> 
> 


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