eingko weblog » C/C++ http://www.eingko.net/blog a developer's thoughts and musings Sat, 14 May 2011 04:58:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Official Computer Geek http://www.eingko.net/blog/2007/06/18/official-computer-geek/ http://www.eingko.net/blog/2007/06/18/official-computer-geek/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:29:12 +0000 Ronald Timoshenko http://www.eingko.net/blog/2007/06/18/official-computer-geek/ I’m not entirely sure what it takes to be considered a “Computer Geek” or “Computer Nerd” (whichever/whatever), but I think I may have crossed that line. I was reading “C for Dummies” by Dan Gookin and around page 210 he mentioned the origin of the name “C++” (check it out on Wikipedia), and I found it to be quite funny. Originally it was called “C with classes”, but Rick Mascitti referred to it as “C++” as a sort of tongue-in-cheek reference to the incremental postfix operator (as in loops; e.g., i++).

c = c + 1;

or

c++;

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