




C++ history
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














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