Opinion of February 2012

[q66]

On Saturday, 4 February 2012 at 21:14:28 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:jgk65f$c0b$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> .C (that's capital C; obviously that never worked on Windows)
>
> That *can* work. Windows filenames may be case-insensitive, but 
> they're certainly not caseless. Not from Win95 onward anyway. 
> (Obviously I'm not saying .C is a good way to go.)
>
>>
>> For me, I find worrying about it about as productive as 
>> arguing whether tabs should be set to 4 or 8.
>
> Ok, so then why not just make the leap? Nobody *wants* .c 
> (including you, apperently), and many people would find it to 
> work better with .cpp. If you're so indifferent about it, then 
> why keep clinging to .c?

There is at least one serious issue with moving - it would break 
*all* dmd pull requests. That does not mean I agree with the .c 
extension, however. :)