Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> > IIRC, the language before C was called B, so it's quite possible that
> > more than one person has come up with a "better than C" language and
> > called it "D" or "E" or whatever... ;-)

> Do you know why C# is called that way?

  Well, when it was a pretty new thing, I heard that # in the name was
actually four + symbols, so it's C++++, ie. "C# is to C++ what C++ is
to C".

  I don't know if it was just a joke.

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