History of C++

History of C++ language is interesting to know. Here we are going to discuss brief history of C++ language.

C++ programming language was developed in 1980 by Bjarne Stroustrup at bell laboratories of AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph), located in U.S.A.

Bjarne Stroustrup is known as the founder of C++ language.

It was develop for adding a feature of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) in C without significantly changing the C component.

C++ programming is “relative” (called a superset) of C, it means any valid C program is also a valid C++ program.

Let’s see the programming languages that were developed before C++ language.

Language Year Developed By
Algol 1960 International Group
BCPL 1967 Martin Richard
B 1970 Ken Thompson
Traditional C 1972 Dennis Ritchie
K & R C 1978 Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie
C++ 1980 Bjarne Stroustrup
C++ implements “data abstraction” using a concept called “classes“, along with other features to allow object-oriented programming and is considered a high level language. Classes help programmers with the organization of their code. They can also be beneficial in helping programmers to avoid mistakes.The original C++ compiler, called Cfront, was written in the C++ programming language. C++ compilation is considered efficient and fast. Its speed can be attributed to its high-level features in conjunction with its low-level components. When compared to other computer programming languages, C++ can be viewed as quite short. This is due to the fact that C++ leans towards the use of special characters instead of keywords.

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