History of c++

Bjarne Stroustrup started working on the C++ language in 1978 and released its first version in 1979. Initially, according to them, this was not a new programming language, they said that it was an extended version of the C language.

When Bjarne Stroustrup added the concept of Classes to the C++ language, it was called "C With Classes" at that time. Bjarne Stroustrup added some new concepts along with classes, due to which the language created by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983 was named C++.

The increment operator "++" in C++ indicates that the C++ language is an extended version of the C language.The C++ language was standardized by the ISO committee in 1998 and a minor update was released in 2003, due to which it was called C++03. In 2011, 2014, and 2017 new standards of C++ language were released, due to which C++ language was called C++11, C++14, and C++17. Every new standard of C++ language comes with a new feature which helps the programmer a lot in programming.

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.

Let's see the programming languages that were developed before C++ language.

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