What is C++, Its Introduction and History | CPP Programming Article
By September 24, 2021
What is C++, Its Introduction and History | CPP Programming Article
We are starting a brand new Article series on C++ programming language.
And this Article series is specially designed for the absolute beginners.
You don't need any programming experience to get started.
But if you happen to have some programming knowledge, then it will definitely help.
All right.
Now in this Article we will see what exactly is C purpose and when it was created why it was created, you know a bit information about the history of this hip-distance.
So first of all, what exactly is C++ now all of you know, that a computer is an electronic device that can perform many computational tasks.
But since it is a machine these computers, they 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 instructions.
This computer will work these instructions which are given to this computer are called as the program and the person who is going to write these instructions or who is going to give these instructions is called an C programmer.
Now 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++ is one of the programming language that can be used to write the computer programs.
There are a lot of programming languages available.
For example, we have C.
We have C sharp.
We have Java we have PHP, you know, we have Python, you know, a lot of programming languages are available and C++ is one of the programming language.
All right.
Now the next thing is why the C++ was created and when it was created the C++ programming language was created by Johnny's prostrobe and his team in 1979 at the Bell Laboratories of New Jersey.
Now when this language was created they didn't directly called it as C++ 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 C programming language is one of the most famous programming language but C programming language had its own limitations year by year the computational capacity of the computers increased and also the programming complexity increased now 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 tasks.
So John is trois trope and his team.
They started working on the C programming language.
They added a lot of features the main feature they added was the object-oriented programming feature and then they created this new language called as C with classes now here this class.
It is actually 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 and heal the object-oriented programming feature, which was added to this C with classes was mainly influenced by another object oriented programming language, which was existing during that time called as the similar 67.
Now this new language C with classes, you know, it had the features from two great programming languages, you know, it handy features from the C programming language and also it had some features from this 67 now the new language which was created, you know, which is the C with glasses was a better choice for writing the programs where the programmers have to perform some complex R programming operations.
And after that in 1983, they renamed this C with classes with C++.
Now here.
The interesting thing is this plus plus it is actually an operator from the C language and this plus plus is an increment operator and here since this new language is an implementation or the next step of the C language, you know, they named it as c plus plus so this is it guys.
This is about some information about what exactly is C++ and about its history.
