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From: "Jeffrey R. Drumm" <drummj@poa.mmc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 4 Jun 1997 19:43:11 GMT
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Q. Where did the names "C" and "C++" come from?

A. They were grades.

			--Jerry Leichter

Jeff Fuller <jfuller@frontiernet.net> wrote in article
<5n20cp$u0c$1@node2.frontiernet.net>...
> How about C++ which stands for 1 more then C
> 
> 
> Jeff
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