C++

C++

Paradigm(s)	Multi-paradigm: procedural, object-oriented, generic
Appeared in	1983
Designed by	Bjarne Stroustrup
Developer	Bjarne Stroustrup Bell Labs ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21
Stable release	ISO/IEC 14882:2011 (2011)
Typing discipline	Static, unsafe, nominative
Major implementations	C++ Builder, clang, Comeau C/C++, GCC, Intel C++ Compiler, Microsoft Visual C++, Sun Studio
Dialects	ISO/IEC C++ 1998, ISO/IEC C++ 2003, ISO/IEC C++ 2011
Influenced by	C, Simula, Ada 83, ALGOL 68, CLU, ML
Influenced	Perl, LPC, Lua, Pike, Ada 95, Java, PHP, D, C99, C#, Falcon
OS	Cross-platform (multi-platform)
Usual filename extensions	.h .hh .hpp .hxx .h++ .cc .cpp .cxx .c++
C++ Programming at Wikibooks

Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++

C++ (pronounced "see plus plus") is a computer programming language. It has been created for writing programs for many different purposes. In the 1990s, C++ became one of the most used programming languages.

The C++ programming language was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in the 1980s. It was originally named "C with classes". The language was planned as a better version of the C programming language and it added features like object-oriented programming. Step by step, a lot of advanced features were added to the language, like operator overloading, exception handling and templates.

Example

The following text is C++ source code and it will write the words "Hello World!" to the screen when it has been compiled and is executed.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
    cout << "Hello World!";
 
    return 0;
}