C++er

English

Etymology

From C++ +‎ -er.

Noun

C++er (plural C++ers)

1. One who uses the C++ programming language.
   • 1992, Paul DiLascia, Windows++: Writing Reusable Windows Code in C++, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 24:

     Non C++-ers have probably noticed the strange-looking WPPoint& return type declaration for all those overloaded operators: / WPPoint& operator++() { ++x; ++y; return *this; } / WPPoint& operator--() { --x; --y; return *this; } / Huh? What’s & doing there?

   • 1993, Object Magazine, volume 3, COOT, Incorporated, page 28:

     Smalltalkers will thus gleefully make ad hominum^[sic] attacks by noting the folly of large C++ projects (“Small is beautiful” is the appropriate rallying cry), but C++ers will often counter by pointing out the lack of disciplined development by some Smalltalkers.

   • 1995, Gregory Satir, Doug Brown, C++: The Core Language, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page xiii:

     Beginning C++’ers can use this subset to get familiar with the basics of the language, while avoiding the frustrations common to anyone leaping into full C++ programming without appropriate preparation.

   • 1999, The C++ Report: The International Newsletter for C++ Programmers, volume 11, JPAM, Incorporated, page 22:

     We’ll get to your question, “What about us C++’ers?” in a moment.

   • 1999, Chris Corry, The Waite Group’s COM/DCOM Primer Plus, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 142:

     However, for the majority of C++ers, who either didn’t care or were more concerned with building programs than fighting holy wars, MFC hit a chord.

   • 2004, John Deacon, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Pragmatic Approach, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, pages 318 and 333:

     C++ers will have to mentally pronounce interface as “pABC” (some say “pabs”; some say “pea eh bee sea”). […] And that means, given the findings of the last decade or so, that object-oriented C++ers will not usually be interested in private inheritance. […] And C++ers say member function rather than method.

   • 2004, David West, Object Thinking, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 37:

     Disagreement between Smalltalkers and C++ers gains added interest from the fact that both claim to be the direct heirs of another, older, language, SIMULA.

   • 2005, C/C++ Users Journal, page 46:

     This discussion was prompted by an e-mail exchange with Bartosz Milewski, C++er, Seattleite, and chef extraordinaire (I kid you not; Bartosz cooked the best meal I’ve ever eaten, and I’ve been places).

   • 2005, Carl Albing, Michael Schwarz, Java Application Development on Linux, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, →ISBN, page 95:

     […] straight Java facts so we can let the non-C++ folks move on while we go a little deeper with you C++’ers.