Why prefix and postfix was introduced in c

Question

Is really prefix and postfix necessary in c.. ?

Answer 1

~ swim ~ You are on the right track will you comments. Older languages like Fortran didn't have the short increment operators, so a lot of code was in the verbose form. Pre and postfix made the code easier to read and write.
The other thing is it made it easier for early c compiles to optimise code. If you were doing a postfix and using the value in calculation, the compiler knew to keep the value in the register, for both the calculation and the post fix. Modern optimising c compilers are very good now so probably not a advantage now.