Ingolf Steinbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Solaris with SUNWspro installed: > CC is the C++ compiler while cc is the C compiler. Thank you for supplying an example that supports my point.
Using that convention, it is impossible for you to know which compiler is which, unless someone tells you or you refer to external documentation. Wouldn't it just be easier to distinguish the two programs by giving them names that are different and that *tell* you which one is which, such as gcc and g++? Just as in my earlier message I pointed out that "jim" and "Jim" are the same name, "cc" and "CC" are the same name, from a human point of view. Read them out loud. Both "jim" and "Jim" come out the same, don't they? We *speak* labels as much as we read them, and spoken language does not make case distinctions. I don't know about you, but when I read, I do not just see the shapes of the letter combinations, I *hear* the words associated with those combinations. Arcane labels such as "cc" and "CC" are spoken as "see see", unless you would habitually say "little see little see" and "uppercase see uppercase see". BTW, in response to the earlier comment (not made by you, IIRC) that my grade school teacher should have pointed out that only "Jim" is correct - that's not really important (I refer you to e.e. cummings, a.a. milne and a variety of other people who do not use capital letters in their names, by the way). "Jim" may be the correct way of spelling it, but if I leave a note for my wife and sign it "jim" she won't say "Who the hell is jim? My husband's name is Jim." -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts) Let's build software that works the way people expect. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
