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C++ was originally called "C with Classes" in 1979, as that is precisely what C++ was at the time. The name was changed to C++ in 1983. ++ is the increment operator in C, thus C++ literally means C=C+1. Hence C++ is the next "incremental" version of C. By rights it should really be called ++C (prefix increment) because, although C++ (postfix increment) increments C, the evaluation is the original value of C.

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