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- From: Michael Venditti <mike.venditti@hydro.on.ca>
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- Subject: Re: What is the difference between C, C+,andC++?
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:26:01 -0500
- Organization: Ontario Hydro, Canada
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- Jon Bell wrote:
- >
- > Richard T. C. Pickles <jiffypop@ibcco.com> wrote:
- > >
- >
- > Well, for one thing, C+ doesn't exist. :-)
- >
- > --
- > Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu> Presbyterian College
- > Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA
- > [for beginner's Usenet info, see http://cs1.presby.edu/~jtbell/usenet]
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-
- From "The C++ Programming Language" 2nd Edition, Bjarne Stroustrup
- writes:
- "The name C++ ...was coined by Rick Mascitti...in 1983. The name
- signifies the evolutionary nature of the changes from C. "++" is the C
- increment operator. The slightly shorter name C+ is a syntax error; it
- has also been used as the name of an unrelated language...The language is
- not called D, because it is an extension of C..."
-
- Mike
-