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Wildly off-topic, but I wonder if people like Sutter get tired of saying "c plus plus". It's a very wordy name, and words that start with "p" has got a certain

by Dewie 12y ago

Wildly off-topic, but I wonder if people like Sutter get tired of saying "c plus plus". It's a very wordy name, and words that start with "p" has got a certain punching quality that I don't know what is called. If I was a daily C++ programmer, I'd rather call it "c p p".

santaclaus 12y ago
Most of the C++ devs I interact with say "c p p", and our local C++ meetup is actually named CPP.
- MaulingMonkey 12y ago
  I believe I normally hear "c p p" when referencing C++ files (including in aggregate possibly referencing headers), but "c plus plus" when talking about the language proper, the standard, compilers, etc.
jgh 12y ago
i think if i worked with more C++ devs I'd call it "cpp" but since I don't "c plus plus" is better for clarity
wffurr 12y ago
In phonetics, it's a "plosive".
- Sharlin 12y ago
  A word which, fittingly, itself starts with a plosive.
  - pavlov 12y ago
    "Plosive" is an onomatopoeic... And "onomatopoeic" is a word that's kind of fun to use exactly because there's nothing onomatopoeic about it.
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Retra 12y ago
'CPP' makes me think 'C Preprocessor.'
agumonkey 12y ago
As a dishonest Schemer, I call it (inc c), less wordy, far easier to say.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 12y ago
  Paren ink see paren?
  - agumonkey 12y ago
    lpar ink see rpar
  - mahmud 12y ago
    Common Lisp is more pronounceable: (incf C) "ink FC", sounds like a soccer club for tattoo enthusiasts :-)
waterlesscloud 12y ago
C++ was my goto daily language for about 10 years, though not as much any more. It all becomes one word, "seeplusplus" that you say pretty fast. It's only three syllables. And faster than "javascript". :-)
cmollis 12y ago
it's not as hard as saying 'objective C'.. although, oddly, not as painful as saying 'golang'.