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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A widely used object-oriented programming language based on C.

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  • proper noun A multi-paradigm high-level compiled programming language, that is a more advanced form of C.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From ++, name of an operator in the language, and from the use of the plus sign to indicate enhancement.]

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From the name of the C language (on which it was based) and ++, the increment operator in both languages, suggesting something added to C.

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