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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
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In article <5n20cp$u0c$1@node2.frontiernet.net> jfuller@frontiernet.net (Jeff Fuller) writes:

>How about C++ which stands for 1 more then C

Actually, it means add to C but use the old version, which seems like
good advice to me.

-- Richard
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