On Saturday, 4 February 2012 at 20:58:23 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/3/2012 4:11 PM, bearophile wrote:
Aren't less than 10 minutes enough to fix this simple problem?
I don't know
why Walter likes to use ".c" as suffix for those files, I
don't remember his
answers on this topic, I have never appreciated this naming
decision.
Back in the day, when most of this was started and the African
continent was still attached to South America, the following
extensions were in wide use for C++ files:
.cpp
.c++
.cxx
.C (that's capital C; obviously that never worked on Windows)
.c
(and corresponding .h suffixes).
None of them achieved any dominance. I myself used .cpp/.hpp
for a while, and simply grew tired of it. The compiler sources
were originally in C, and when they were converted to C++ it
was easier to just keep the same file names (and yes, .c was
also in wide use for C++). All the C++ compilers accepted .c
files, distinguishing by using a switch (dmc -cpp) or by name
(gcc/g++). It just was never any problem.
For me, I find worrying about it about as productive as arguing
whether tabs should be set to 4 or 8.
Except it consistently confuses people and tools. .cpp or .cc is
all I see nowadays, and DMD should modernise. Things may have
been different in the (eighteen) eighties, but get with the times!
