- C — a programming language.
- Dennis Ritchie, having improved on the B language, called his creation New B. He later renamed it C. (See also D).
- C++ — an object-oriented programming language, a successor to the C programming language.
- C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language "C with Classes" and then "new C". The original language 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. In C the '++' operator increments the value of the variable it is appended to, thus C++ would increment the value of C.
- computer — from the human computers who carried out calculations mentally and possibly with mechanical aids, now replaced by electronic programmable computers.
- cookie — a packet of information that travels between a browser and the web server.
- The term was coined by web browser programmer Lou Montulli after the term "magic cookies" used by Unix programmers.
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