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"Drop one of x++ or ++x. C++ programmers generally prefer the prefix forms, but everyone else generally prefers the postfix forms. Dropping either one would be a significant deviation from C."

Funny given the name of the language.

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Actually it's a good name. C got incremented, and we keep original C locally while some weird side effects no one really wanted keeps happening in committee until the end of time.

C++ is not even a good increment of C. Yes it had a lot of inspiration from C, but in all seriousness, it should not have been called C++ since it is not backwards compatible with C without some serious work. Honestly longest running ironic language name.

Sorry, the lifetime winner of that award is JavaScript.

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