Why do we use the angular brackets?

Question

The 'printing a text' tutorial gives the example of printing a text in the following manner:

int main() {
cout << "This " << "is " << "awesome!";
return 0;
}

Why are the angular brackets used in between the words "This", "is" and "awesome"?
I tried removing the angular brackets in 'Try it Yourself' and there was no effect on the final product.

Answer 1

You can either print three separate strings or one longer string, there will be no diferrence. You don't really have to put << between the words in your example.
It is useful when you want to put a variable between text:
int a=10;
cout << "The variable has value "<<a<<".\n";