In this article, we will see you what exactly is C Plus Plus. When it was developed and why? You know a bit of information about the history of the C++.

What exactly is C Plus Plus(CPP)?

All of you know that a computer is an electronic device that can perform many computational tasks. However, since it is a machine, these computers really can't do anything on their own. So to get any job done using the computer, we need to give instructions to this computer, and according to our guidelines, these computers will work. These instructions which are provided to this computer are called the “Program,” and the person who writes these instructions or who is going to give these instructions is called as a “Programmer.”

The language in which these instructions are written, or these programs are written is called as the “Programming Language.” So here the programmer will use any of the programming language available and write the computer program or the instructions, and according to this program, the computer will work. So here C Plus Plus is one of the programming languages that can be used to write computer programs. There are many programming languages available. For example, we have C, we have C Sharp, we have Java, we have PHP, and we have Python. You know many programming languages are available, and C Plus Plus (CPP) is one of the programming languages. All Right.

Why this C++ was created and when?

This C Plus Plus programming language was created by “Bjarne Stroustrup” and his team in 1979 at the Bell Laboratories of New Jersey. When this language was created, they didn't directly call it as “C Plus Plus” Instead they called it as “C with classes.” During the 1970s C programming language was one of the most used and the most popular programming language, and even to this day, the C programming language is one of the most famous programming languages. However, the C programming language has its limitations. Year by year the computational capacity of the computers increased and also the programming complexity increased.

The problem with C programming language was as the programming complexity increased and the programs tend to become larger; it was difficult to manage and write the code using the C language for those complex computational task. So Bjarne Strostroup and his team they started working on the C programming language they added many features, the main feature they added was the object-oriented programming features and then they created this new language called as “C with classes.”

This “class” it is a part of the object-oriented programming. This object-oriented programming is an entirely different programming approach from the programming approach used in the C language. The object-oriented programming features which were added to this “C with classes” was mainly influenced by another object-oriented programming language which was existing during that time called as the SIMULA-67. Now this new language “C with classes” had the features from two great programming languages some peculiarities from the C programming language and also it had some peculiarities from the SIMULA-67.

The new language which was created in which is the “C with classes” was a better choice for writing the programs where the programmers have to perform some Complex programming operations. And after that in 1983 they renamed this “C with classes” with “C++” Now the exciting thing is this ++ it is actually an operator from the C language and this ++ is an increment operator and since this new language is an incrementation or the next step of the C language they named it as C++. So this is about some information about what exactly is C Plus Plus and about its history. 

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