C++ history

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