Is there any meaning for c++??

Question

hi frds... is there any internal meaning for the C++?? what C stands for? it has been asked in an interview it seems. if you know tell me..

Answer 1

The C++ (pronounced "See Plus Plus") programming language started out in the seventies as a more powerful version of the C programming language named "C with Objects." As time went by, the inventor had a contest to pick the name among his peers. This was the winner. The name is actually a clever play on the C syntax for incrementing a variable by 1. In C, you can increment a variable like so:



C = C + 1;



A shorthand for this is:



C += 1;



Because adding 1 to a variable is so common, a further shorthand was created:



C++;



All three of the above statements are identical in behavior.



So, because C++ was the next increment of C, "C++" is kind of an inside joke.



I hope I explained that well enough that it made sense.

Answer 2

(computer science) An object-oriented language that was created as an extension to the C language.



Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: C++

An object-oriented version of C that has been widely used to develop enterprise and commercial applications. Created by Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ became popular because it combined traditional C programming with object-oriented programming (OOP) features. Smalltalk and other OOP languages did not provide the familiar structures of conventional languages such as C and Pascal. Microsoft's Visual C++ is the most widely used C++ language. See object-oriented programming, C, Visual C++, C# and Managed C++.



Hacker Slang: C++



Designed by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Labs as a successor to C. Now one of the languages of choice, although many hackers still grumble that it is the successor to either Algol 68 or Ada (depending on generation), and a prime example of second-system effect. Almost anything that can be done in any language can be done in C++, but it requires a language lawyer to know what is and what is not legal — the design is almost too large to hold in even hackers' heads. Much of the cruft results from C++'s attempt to be backward compatible with C. Stroustrup himself has said in his retrospective book The Design and Evolution of C++ (p. 207), “Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.” [Many hackers would now add “Yes, and it's called Java” —ESR]



Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: C++



High-level computer programming language. Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup of Bell Laboratories in the early 1980s, it is traditional C language with added object-oriented programming capabilities. C++, along with Java, has become popular for developing commercial software packages that incorporate multiple interrelated applications.



Wikipedia: C++



C++ ("C Plus Plus", pronounced /ˌsiːˌplʌsˈplʌs/) is a general-purpose programming language. C++ is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features.[1] It is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, generally a compiled language where compilation creates machine code for the target machine hardware, supports procedural programming, data abstraction, object-oriented programming, and generic programming.



Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C programming language and named it "C with Classes". In 1983 it was renamed to C++. Enhancements started with the addition of classes, followed by, among other features, virtual functions, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, templates, and exception handling. The C++ programming language standard was ratified in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998, the current version of which is the 2003 version, ISO/IEC 14882:2003. A new version of the standard (known informally as C++0x) is being developed.



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Answer 3

C++ is a computer programming language like DOS.

Answer 4

nope! no clue!!!