Origins (1979-1983)

  • Bjarne Stroustrup: In 1979, at Bell Labs, Bjarne Stroustrup began working on “C with Classes,” an enhancement of the C programming language that introduced object-oriented features like classes and basic inheritance.
  • C++ Birth: By 1983, Stroustrup renamed his project to C++. The name suggests an evolution of C, where “++” is the increment operator in C, symbolizing an enhancement.

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