History of C++

• • During 1972 Dennis Ritchie created C Programming language.

  • C++ is also called as C with classes

  • Stroustrup states that the purpose of C++ is to make writing good programs easier and more pleasant for the individual programmer.

  • C++ programming language is extension to C Language.

  • In C language increment operator (++) is used because of that it is called as C++ as “Incremented C” means Extension to C.

  • C++ is a general-purpose programming language

  • In 1979, Bjarne Stroustrup, a computer scientist, began work on the predecessor to C++, "C with Classes"

  • C++ Development started in 1979.

  • During the creation of Ph.D. thesis, Bjarne Stroustrup worked with language called Simula.

  • Simula is basically useful for the simulation work.

  • Simula was first language to support object-oriented programming paradigm

  • Bjarne Stroustrup identified that this OOP features can be included in the software development.

  • After that Bjarne Stroustrup started working on the C language and added more extra OOP features to the classic C.

  • He added features in such a fashion that the basic flavour of C remains unaffected.

  • C++ includes some add-on features such as classes, basic inheritance, in-lining, default function arguments and strong type checking .

Versions of C++ Programming Language

• 1. Visual C++

  2. Borland C++

  3. Turbo C++

  4. Standardize C++(ANSI C++)