History of C++

                                         

                                         History of C++

Background History  :

In the early 1970s, Dennis Ritchie of bell Laboratories was engaged in a project to develop a new operating system.  Ritchie discovered that in order to accomplish his task he needed the use of a programming language that was concise and that produced and speedy programs. This need led Ritchie to develop the programming language called C.

        In the early 1989s,  also at Bell Laboratories, another programming language was created which was based upon the C language. C++ is also called as C with classes. This new language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup and was called C++. Stroustrup states that the purpose of C++ is to make writing good programs easier and more pleasant for the individual programmer. When he designed C++, he added OOP (Object oriented programming) features to C without significantly changing the Components. In C we have used increment operator (++). Therefore we called C++ as "incremented C" means Extension to C. Thus C++ is a "relative" (called a superset)  of C, meaning that any valid C program is also a valid C++ program.

Creator of C++  

Versions of C++ Language :

There are several versions of C++ Programming Language  -

• Visual C++

• Borland C++

• Tuebo C++ 

• Standardize C++ [ANSI C++]

Reference Links  :

• http://www.hitmill.com/programming/cpp/cppHistory.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B