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From: devine@cookie.dec.com (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C critisisms
Message-ID: <8801082348.AA04635@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 8 Jan 88 23:48:33 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>>This does bring up a question though: Why is it C++ instead of D or P? (grin).
 
>I thought that this pun was obvious:  C++:  the old value of C, and
>increment it as well.

 Actually it should be ++C.  C++ means use the current value before 
incrementing.  To be perverse, one could call Stroustrup's creation C++,C.

Bob