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C++

American  
[see-pluhs-pluhs] / ˈsiˈplʌsˈplʌs /

noun

  1. Computers. a high-level programming language, a descendant of C, with the ability to manipulate object-oriented features.


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Even Microsoft’s own Office desktop apps use the C and C++ language in ways that aren’t typically taught in coding school, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

A long tranche of C++ mixed with chains of organic chemistry, Brandt motors, and piles of trash whose syntax I was incapable of deciphering flowed across the visor.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2023

Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages including Java, C++ and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users, Google said on Friday.

From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2023

There, he worked on computer architecture and programming languages, particularly compilers, which translate programs written in so-called “high level” languages, like today’s Java or C++, into steps a computer can execute.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

Java is probably included in the symbolic model called C++.

From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Dorin Teodor Moisa

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