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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: "C++"
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:33:32 -0500
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On Dec 19, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:52:22PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote:
>> How do you express the name "C++"? {la cy.sumjibu.sumjibu} or {la
>> cy.sujybu.sujybu}?
>
> la .siplusplus.
>
> It's a name; it has little real semantic meaning.

.ie C++ is an inherently English programming language in my  
experience. And  very few users of C++ know where the name  
semantically derived from anyhow.

If you really wanted a Lojbanic name, you could try to translate "C  
with classes", which was the C++'s first (working) name. But they  
you'd need a Lojban word for "class" as it's used in C++... .uonai

Any idea what other languages use to name C++? I'd bet just their name  
for "C", and their name for "plus plus", but I've never heard anyone  
talk about it not using English.

mu'o mi'e .aleks.