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7 Sep 2024 05:09:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sometimes, Haskell wins  
From: Darren New
Date: 24 Sep 2008 16:17:37
Message: <48daa061$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   Well, when it was a pretty new thing, I heard that # in the name was
> actually four + symbols, so it's C++++, ie. "C# is to C++ what C++ is
> to C".

Given that it's pronounced "C Sharp", I expect it's because it's half a 
note higher than C. Like, on a piano keyboard.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)


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