C++ was misnamed in the first place. From the WikiPedia ...
The Combined Programming Language (CPL) was a computer programming language developed jointly between the Mathematical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and the University of London Computer
Unit during the 1960s.
BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) is a computer programming language that was designed by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1966; a response to difficulties with its predecessor CPL.
B was the name of a programming language developed at Bell Labs. It was mostly the work of Ken Thompson with contributions from Dennis Ritchie, and first appeared in 1969 or thereabouts. B was essentially the BCPL system stripped of any component that Thompson felt he could do without, in order to make it fit within the memory capacity of the minicomputers of the time.
The C programming language is a standardized imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie for use on the Unix operating system. I It was named "C" because many of its features were derived from an earlier language called "B".
Now comes the error. C was not the next letter of the alphabet after B, it was the next letter of BCPL. C++ should have been named P. (Rhymes with T, stands for Trouble.)
And naturally Java should have been L.