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C++ Short History
What is the history of C++? "Quiz 3"
Question | Answer |
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Who invented C with Classes? | Bjarne Stroustrup at AT&T, later C++. |
What language did C++ evolve from? | C, developed by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie for UNIX; which in turn evolved from B, written by Ken Thompson in 1970 as a variant of BCPL. |
When was the ANSI C standard finished? | 1988. It specified the standard C library, added const, struct and pointer optimizations. |
When did ANSI standard C++ compilers become available? | 1998. This added multiple inheritance, namespaces and type bool. |
Why did C++ succeed over other early O.O. languages? | It was backwards compatible with C. C programmers could immediately use C++. |