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Sharpening Your Programming Skills, or Don't Let Your Sharp Fall Flat

Years ago, Dr. Dobb's columnist Al Stevens launched a C-library project that implemented a subset of the IBM SAA Common User Access (CUA) interface. Being a C programmer, he wanted to call it "C-Sharp," but being a realist, he figured that someone else had already latched on to that name. So being a musician and knowing that C-sharp is the same as D-flat, he christened the library D-Flat.

September 02, 2009
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