C++ is a general-purpose programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C language. It supports both procedural and object-oriented programming paradigms.
During the late 1970s, Bjarne Stroustrup added features from Simula 67 to C while working as a Danish computer scientist at Bell Labs. The main objective behind his work involved synthesizing C's efficient nature with OOP's abstract modular systems.
C++ programming is "relative" (called a superset) of C, which means any valid C program is also a valid C++ program.
C++ gives programmers a high level of control over system resources and memory.
The language was updated 5 major times in 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020, and 2023 to C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, and C++23.
The developer changed the name of "C with Classes" to C++ because it included many improvements beyond the original C language in 1983. C developers utilized the "++" symbolic increment operator to indicate the progression of the programming language toward C++.
C++ is a cross-platform language that can be used to create high-performance applications.
Features of C++:
It provides a lot of features that are given below:
