What does the “c” mean in cout, cin, cerr and clog?

Question

What does the "c" mean in the cout, cin, cerr and clog names?

I would say char but I haven\

Answer 1

Edit: FredOverflow has found the right answer with a link toward Stroustrup web site.

A c++ standard draft (n1905.pdf on www.open-std.org, I don't have the exact link) seems to indicate that it comes from "C" : "C standard output" => cout

27.3 Standard iostream objects [lib.iostream.objects]

1- The header declares objects that associate objects with the standard C streams provided for by the functions declared in (27.8.2).

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27.3.1 Narrow stream objects [lib.narrow.stream.objects]

istream cin

1- The object cin controls input from a stream buffer associated with the object stdin, declared in .

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