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What is C++
C++ (/ˌsiːˌplʌsˈplʌs/) is a general-purpose programming language created by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or "C with Classes". The language has expanded significantly over time, and modern C++ has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation. It is almost always implemented as a compiled language, and many vendors provide C++ compilers, including the Free Software Foundation, LLVM, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM, so it is available on many platforms.

C++
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Paradigm
Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, generic[1]
Designed by
Bjarne Stroustrup
First appeared
1985; 34 years ago
Stable release
ISO/IEC 14882:2017 / 1 December 2017; 17 months ago
Typing discipline
Static, nominative, partially inferred
Filename extensionsC, .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .c++, .h, .hh, .hpp, .hxx, .h++
Website
isocpp.org
Major implementations
LLVM Clang, GCC, Microsoft Visual C++, Embarcadero C++Builder, Intel C++ Compiler, IBM XL C++, EDG
Influenced by
Ada, ALGOL 68, C, CLU, ML, Simula
Influenced
Ada 95, C #,[2] C99, Chapel,[3] Clojure,[4] D, Java,[5] Lua, Nim,[citation needed] Perl, PHP, Python,[6] Rust
C++ Programming at Wikibooks
C++ was designed with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained software and large systems, with performance, efficiency and flexibility of use as its design highlights.[7] C++ has also been found useful in many other contexts, with key strengths being software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications,[7] including desktop applications, servers (e.g. e-commerce, Web search or SQL servers), and performance-critical applications (e.g. telephone switches or space probes).[8]

C++ is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), with the latest standard version ratified and published by ISO in December 2017 as ISO/IEC 14882:2017 (informally known as C++17).[9] The C++ programming language was initially standardized in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998, which was then amended by the C++03, C++11 and C++14 standards. The current C++17 standard supersedes these with new features and an enlarged standard library. Before the initial standardization in 1998, C++ was developed by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs since 1979 as an extension of the C language; he wanted an efficient and flexible language similar to C that also provided high-level features for program organization.[10] C++20 is the next planned standard, keeping with the current trend of a new version every three years.[11]