I was an early user of the language in the 80s and early 90s (with for example cfront which compiled to C and later the original g++ and its libg++). > In many

I was an early user of the language in the 80s and early 90s (with for example cfront which compiled to C and later the original g++ and its libg++). > In many ways the '++' in 'C++' comes from giving the compiler more information to work with. This is definitely not the origin of the '++'. I believe the '++' name was literally a play about "one better than C."