What means "++" in the C++ name?

[Badcrash]

What means "++" in the C++ name?

 

[chiph]

"C, plus some more".

Chip H.

 

[Karl Blessing]

C++ is a superset of C (which means C++ can do anything C can do, but not vice versa)

C++ is the language that introduced object oriented programming, where as C is still procedural.

also not sure where the "++" came from
but it is a new thing in C++ , as opposed to C

to be able to say

B++ , which is the same as saying B = B + 1 Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[TheInsider]

Yes,
"++" is C's increment operator, so they decided to call the "new" language C++ because it was, as Karl put it, a superset of C. That's it - just a clever name. Rob Marriott
rob@career-connections.net

 

[Timil]

C++ is not a C with some more stuff.. it's just a different langage with ascendancy compatibility with the C langage

 

[jmarler]

The origin of the name for the C++ programming language comes from the ++ operator. The ++ operator is the unary operator that increments that variable that is precedes or follows. The C programming language was an improvement to the proprietary Bell Labs programming language "B". (B presumably stands for Bell.) And C++ was an improvement on the C programming language. Therefore, C++ should theoretically be called "D". However, the inventors of C++, being the jokesters they are, decided to increment the C programming language by calling it C++.
- Jeff Marler B-)

 

[dArktEmplAr]

Oh my gosh!!!..............GASP Welcome to the Pythian Games!
Long live Godess Athena!
dArktEmplAr of Delphi Oracle

 

[frankiecifarra]

Hey guys,
You all are wrong about the "++'" in the name C++.
As they put it some years back, C with classes( the original name that the author named it) is farther than C, for that, it would be a C+, but C+ is a sintax error. Then call it,C++.