C++

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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.

The name can be explained like this: In C and C++, the command x++ adds 1 to the value of x. So the name C++ is a play on that, because of the enhancements made to C.

[edit] 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>
 
int main()
{
  std::cout << "Hello World!"<<endl;
  return 0;
}

It is an object oriented programming language.Actually it is the object oriented extension of C another programming language.Today this language is used to write mainly system programmes also application programmes.

      The C++ programming language was developed by Bjarne Stroustroup.C++ is faster than Java which is a pure object oriented programming language.

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