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- From: prism@pixie.co.za (Pri$m)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question - Why is C named 'C'?
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:19:31 GMT
- Organization: The Brigade
- Message-ID: <4l96rh$fb9@hawk.pix.za>
- References: <1996Apr16.122212@ubmail> <4l3i2u$13b@itchy.itsnet.com>
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- anderson@itsnet.com (Kelly Anderson) wrote:
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- >telliott@ubmail (TODD ELLIOTT) wrote:
- >>I know it sounds like a stupid question, but why is C named 'C' in the first
- >>place? I can understand BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, or COBOL, but 'C'?
- >>
- >>If it was a product of demented minds of some technicians at Bell Labs, that
- >>explains a lot. ;)
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- >Because it was the succcessor to B. (This is not a joke)
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- >I don't think there ever was an A, though, so the question becomes why did they name it B? :-)
- As far as I know they came up with 'B' from Bell Labs. (Strange sense
- of humour on some of these guyz).
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- The name C++ is a pun of C's increment operator. (ie to incrememnt j
- you would say j++).
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- Again ... strange sense of humour but I think it's kinda kewl.
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- CheerZ,
- Pri$m.
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