C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroupstrup at AT & T Bell Laboratories, USA in early 1980’s. He combined the best of C language and Simula 67 and created a language that could support object oriented programming features and still have power of C.
C++ is a language that can be used for two methods of writing computer programs:
procedural programming and object-oriented programming .
In procedural programming, the programmer constructs procedures (or functions, as they are called in C++). The procedures are collections of programming statements that perform a specific task. The procedures each contain their own variables and commonly share variables with other procedures.
Procedural programming is centered on the procedure, or function.
The
objects contain, within themselves, both information and the ability to
manipulate the information. Operations are carried out on the information in an
object by sending the object a message. When an object receives a
message instructing it to perform some operation, it carries out the
instruction.
The
most important facilities that C++ adds on to C are Classes, inheritance,
function overloading, and operator overloading. The object oriented features in
C++ allows programmers to build large programs with clarity, extensibility and
ease of maintenance, incorporating the spirit of efficiency of C.
Applications of
C++
C++ is suitable for virtually any programming task including development of editors, compilers, databases, communication systems and any complex real-life application systems.
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