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What Is C++?: ++ (Pronounced Cee Plus Plus) Is A General Purpose Programming Language. It

C++ is a general purpose programming language that has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features. It is designed for systems programming and performance critical applications, and has been used widely for desktop applications, servers, and entertainment software like video games. C++ is a compiled language with implementations on many platforms and is standardized by ISO, with the latest standard ratified in 2011.

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What Is C++?: ++ (Pronounced Cee Plus Plus) Is A General Purpose Programming Language. It

C++ is a general purpose programming language that has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features. It is designed for systems programming and performance critical applications, and has been used widely for desktop applications, servers, and entertainment software like video games. C++ is a compiled language with implementations on many platforms and is standardized by ISO, with the latest standard ratified in 2011.

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What is C++?

++ (pronounced cee plus plus) is a general purpose programming language. It


has imperative, object-oriented and genericprogramming features, while also providing the facilities
for low level memory manipulation.
It is designed with a bias for systems programming (e.g. embedded systems, operating system
kernels), with performance, efficiency and flexibility of use as its design requirements. C++ has also
been found useful in many other contexts, including desktop applications, servers (e.g. e-
commerce, web search, SQL), performance critical applications (e.g. telephone switches, space
probes) and entertainment software, such as video games.
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It is a compiled language, with implementations of it available on many platforms. Various
organizations provide them, including theFSF, LLVM, Microsoft and Intel.
C++ is standardised by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which the latest
(and current) having being ratified and published by ISO in September 2011 as ISO/IEC
14882:2011 (informally known as C++11).
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The C++ programming language was initially
standardised in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998, which was then amended by the C++03, ISO/IEC
14882:2003, standard. The current standard (C++11) supersedes these, with new features and an
enlarged standard library.
Before standardization (1989 onwards), C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs,
starting in 1979, who wanted an efficient flexible language (like C) that also provided high level
features for programme organization.
Many other programming languages have been influenced by C++, including C#, Java, and newer
versions of C (after 1998).
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