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Why Next to C Is C++ Not C+!

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21st Nov 2017, 5:30 AM
Aivon Jan Asher Nudo
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C is basically C thats for sure ++ stands for incremented. That means advanced or upgraded version of C and There is one more concept & i.e. class , ++ mean C increment by 1 by adding class concept...
27th Nov 2017, 10:43 AM
Harshad Gare
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It is because of the increment operator " ++ " that is in C. C++ is the next level of C therefore the developers of the language used the ++ operator in front of c to show the same.
21st Nov 2017, 6:36 PM
Riyashi Chandak
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Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of c++, was an admirer of simula 67 (his favourite language) and also was a strong supporter of c. He wanted to combine the best of both the languages and the resulting came out to be c++ . Well in starting the initial name was 'c with classes' but in 1983 (don't remember clearly) , Rick Mascitti coined the name c++. I read this somewhere in a book don't remember the year clearly but i think it's 1983.
22nd Dec 2017, 2:20 PM
Hardeep Kumar
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