File extension of c++ files used on d compiler sources

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 02:16:37 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 23:14:52 UTC, Domingo Alvarez Duarte 
> wrote:
>> It's fine that D is innovating in the programming language 
>> field but not all conventions are bad ones.
>>
>> Cheers !
>
> Legacy, pretty sure the early C++ days used .c and Walters 
> compiler comes from those early days.
>
> I believe it hasn't change because of cost/benefit.

Yep, compilers even had flags to state how to interpret .c files.

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Paulo