A Brief History of C++ Programming Language

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Brief History of C++

  1. During 1970 Dennis Ritchie created C Programming language.
  2. In the early 1980′s, also at Bell Laboratories, another programming language was created which was based upon the C language.
  3. New language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup and was called C++.
  4. Stroustrup states that the purpose of C++ is to make writing good programs easier and more pleasant for the individual programmer.
  5. C++ programming language is extension to C Language.
  6. In C we have already used increment operator (++) . Therefor we called C++ as “Incremented C” means Extension to C.

Creator of C++

Creator of C++ Bjarne Stroustrup_pic_1

Versions of C++ Language

There are several versions of C++ Programming Language -

  • Visual C++
  • Borland C++
  • Turbo C++
  • Standardize C++ [ANSI C++]

Reference Links :

  1. http://www.hitmill.com/programming/cpp/cppHistory.html
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B