HISTORY OF CPP / C++

 

HISTORY OF CPP / C++

C++ development started in 1979, by Bjarne Stroustup at AT&T (American telegraph and telegram) Bell laboratory, located in U.S.A.

Initially in 1979, C++ was invented as the name “C with classes”. Later in 1983, it was renamed as “C++”. As we know “++” operator is used for increment, so “C++” basically is Increment/Enhancement in C-language so that’s why “C with classes” renamed to “C++”.

Bjarne stroustrup influenced by features of C-language and OOP (Object Oriented Programing) in Simula67 language and invented C++ language. C++ was First Widely Accepted General-Purpose Object-Oriented programing language.

C++ is superset of C-language, which means C++ contains features of C-language and adds some of its own. So that’s why C++ is also known as the extended version of C-language.

The most popular language JAVA is written in C++ language. Many operating systems like “IOS” also written in C++ language. C++ is 4^th most used language. C++ is also known as structural programming language. C++ provides many features such as, Array, structure, class and object, constructor and destructor and linked-list.

C++ is case sensitive. Any type of program has to be written in Lower-case letters. Program written in C++ has extension “.cpp”.

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