History of C++
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 |
C++ implements “data abstraction” using a concept called “classes“, along with other features to allow object-oriented programming and is considered a high level language. Classes help programmers with the organization of their code. They can also be beneficial in helping programmers to avoid mistakes.The original C++ compiler, called Cfront, was written in the C++ programming language. C++ compilation is considered efficient and fast. Its speed can be attributed to its high-level features in conjunction with its low-level components. When compared to other computer programming languages, C++ can be viewed as quite short. This is due to the fact that C++ leans towards the use of special characters instead of keywords.