An ancient joke about C++ was that the language is called C++ and not ++C because the language is improved (incremented), but many people still use it as C (the previous value).

• 关于C++有一个古老的笑话，这种语言之所以称为C++而非++C，是因为它虽然已经进行了改进（递增），但是很多人还是把它当C（原值）使用。