POLL: Why C++?

[BHX]

Just got to thinking. My first language was BASIC in 7th grade. Then started playing with HTML a few weeks after C++ my freshman year. Vaguely remember it:

10 GOTO 20
20 PRINT "HELLO"
RUN

May be completely wrong, but you have to think, I'm pulling this from 19 year old memory.
[EDIT]
Checked online and I have 10 and 20 backwards.
Examples I find says it should have been:

10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

Memory isn't that bad after all.