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
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-)
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++.
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