History of C++
C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at AT & T Bell Laboratories in Muarry Hill, New Jersy (USA) in 1983. C++ is an OOP i.e. Object Oriented Programming, which allows programmers to develop large and complex applications. The OOP languages existed before C++ were slow and inefficient.
So, Bjarne Stroustrup who was a great admirer and master of C and SIMULA 67, combined the features of both the languages into more powerful language. This combination of features of SIMULA 67 and C resulted in a new language called C with Classes by Bjarne in 1979. C with Classes lacked some OOP features. Therefore some features and ideas were taken from ALGOL 68 (Algorithmic Language). Thus it resulted in C++. The name C++ is credited to Rick Mascitti who suggested this name and was first used in 1983. It is named C++ not C+ or ++C because C+ has been used as the name of an earlier unrelated language and C++ is more commonly used than ++C. Moreover, it is not named D language because it is an extension of C.
Version year
1.0 1983
2.0 1989
3.0 1992
Creator of C++: Bjarne Stroustrup.
Brief History of C++
- During 1970 Dennis Ritchie created C Programming language.
- In the early 1980′s, also at Bell Laboratories, another programming language was created which was based upon the C language.
- New language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup and was calledC++.
- 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 we have already used increment operator (++) . Therefor we called C++ as “Incremented C” means Extension to C.
