[common, esp. on _news.admin.net-abuse.email_]
Contraction of "Coffee & Cats". This frequently occurs as a
warning label on USENET posts that are likely to cause you to
snarf coffee onto your keyboard and
startle the cat off your lap.
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C++ /C'-pluhs-pluhs/ n.
Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as a
successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice,
although many hackers still grumble that it is the successor to
either Algol 68 or Ada (depending on
generation), and a prime example of second-system effect. Almost
anything that can be done in any language can be done in C++, but
it requires a language
lawyer to know what is and what is not legal-- the design
is almost too large to hold in even hackers' heads. Much
of the cruft results from C++'s
attempt to be backward compatible with C. Stroustrup himself has
said in his retrospective book "The Design and Evolution of C++"
(p. 207), "Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner
language struggling to get out." [Many hackers would now add
"Yes, and it's called Java" --ESR]
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calculator [Cambridge] n.
Syn. for bitty box.