Friday, December 16, 2011

History of C++

The history of C++ begins with C. C++ is built upon the foundation of C. Thus, C++ is a superset of C. C++ expanded and enhanced the C language to support object-oriented programming (which is described later in this module). C++ also added several other improvements to the C language, including an extended set of library routines.

C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979, at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He initially called the new language “C with Classes ” However in 1983 the name was changed to C++ Stroustrup built C++ on the foundation of C including all of C's features attributes and benefits

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