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 |
