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From: halvers@iraq.steinmetz (peter c halverson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C critisisms
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Date: 8 Jan 88 14:10:58 GMT
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In article <4559@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>>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.

But shouldn't it really be ++C then? Otherwise, the value (language?) 
"returned" is still the old C :-)



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