At least in the case of dereferencing, I think it's more likely that C++ generalized something that C took for granted as having one specific meaning. C was cr

At least in the case of dereferencing, I think it's more likely that C++ generalized something that C took for granted as having one specific meaning. C was created with the idea that the only thing that could ever be dereferenced was a memory address. C++ added flexibility to the system thereby violating this precept.