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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 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".

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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". :-)

In phonetics, it's a "plosive".

A word which, fittingly, itself starts with a plosive.

"Plosive" is an onomatopoeic... And "onomatopoeic" is a word that's kind of fun to use exactly because there's nothing onomatopoeic about it.

'CPP' makes me think 'C Preprocessor.'

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

Most of the C++ devs I interact with say "c p p", and our local C++ meetup is actually named CPP.

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.

As a dishonest Schemer, I call it (inc c), less wordy, far easier to say.

Paren ink see paren?

lpar ink see rpar

Common Lisp is more pronounceable: (incf C) "ink FC", sounds like a soccer club for tattoo enthusiasts :-)

it's not as hard as saying 'objective C'.. although, oddly, not as painful as saying 'golang'.

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