bs@alice.UucP (Bjarne Stroustrup) (03/25/86)
> From: larry@JPL-VLSI.ARPA > Newsgroups: net.lang.c > > One thing that Stroustrup's book hasn't cleared up for me is: > HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE C++? (I DON'T like C-inc; too close to Sink. > And Isn't C-Plus taken?) > > From: dm@BBN-VAX.ARPA > > How is C++ pronounced? Stroustroup, in the introduction to his book > on C++, suggests that one see the appendix to Orwell's 1984 for a more > negative analysis of the name of the program, which leads me to > believe it is called C-double-plus, as in double-plus-good. I guess I unintensionally created a mystery. C++ is pronounced ``C plus plus''. I forgot to put that in the book, but it is actually there if you look carefully. Addison Wesley put it on the library of congress ``information card'' on the back of the title page. The Orwell book is good as a puzzle and as a warning to overzealous language designers, but not as a guide to real life pronounciation. - Bjarne Stroustrup (AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill)