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Subject: Fwd: IT Gurus, and some facts/pictures about them..
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:12:18 -0700 (PDT)

might have seen this before..
2) Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'new C'. Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.