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What does c++ mean

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21st Sep 2017, 12:46 PM
Selma
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It's a long story in fact! In 1979, Bjarne Stroustrup, a Danish computer scientist, began work on "C with Classes", the predecessor to C++. The motivation for creating a new language originated from Stroustrup's experience in programming for his Ph.D. thesis. Stroustrup found that Simula had features that were very helpful for large software development, but the language was too slow for practical use, while BCPL was fast but too low-level to be suitable for large software development. When Stroustrup started working at AT&T Bell Labs, he had the problem of analyzing the UNIX kernel with respect to distributed computing. Remembering his Ph.D. experience, Stroustrup set out to enhance the C language with Simula-like features. C was chosen because it was general-purpose, fast, portable and widely used. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B] As an improved version of C language, he decided to call it C++ ( ++ increment C by one!)
21st Sep 2017, 1:06 PM
Babak
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It's simply a step up from C. You have the ++ symbol for increments, so it's basically saying that it's one up from C.
21st Sep 2017, 1:07 PM
AgentSmith
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I don't know , I just guess! C - cin , cout ++ - x++ , ++x :D
21st Sep 2017, 1:44 PM
AL.The.Flame!
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don't worry take rest☺ pray♡ my name ▪u will get pass in c++😉😉
21st Sep 2017, 3:07 PM
NKCM
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Improves off C more implementations etc.
21st Sep 2017, 1:33 PM
Anthony Perez