C++

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C++

Paradigm	Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, generic[1]
Designed by	Bjarne Stroustrup
First appeared	1983; 34 years ago
Stable release	ISO/IEC 14882:2014 / 15 December 2014; 2 years ago
Typing discipline	Static, nominative, partially inferred
Implementation language	C++
OS	Cross-platform
Filename extensions	.cc .cpp .cxx .C .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++
Influenced by
C, Simula, ALGOL 68, Ada, CLU, ML
Influenced
Ada 95, C99, C#,[2] Chapel,[3] D, Java,[4] Lua, Rust, Python, Perl, PHP
C++ Programming at Wikibooks

C++ (pronounced cee plus plus, /ˈsiː plʌs plʌs/) is a general-purpose programming language. It has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features, while also providing facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
It was designed with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained and large systems, with performance, efficiency and flexibility of use as its design highlights.^[5] C++ has also been found useful in many other contexts, with key strengths being software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications,^[5] including desktop applications, servers (e.g. e-commerce, web search or SQL servers), and performance-critical applications (e.g. telephone switches or space probes).^[6] C++ is a compiled language, with implementations of it available on many platforms and provided by various organizations, including the Free Software Foundation (FSF's GCC), LLVM, Microsoft, Intel and IBM.
C++ is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), with the latest standard version ratified and published by ISO in December 2014 as ISO/IEC 14882:2014 (informally known as C++14).^[7] The C++ programming language was initially standardized in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998, which was then amended by the C++03, ISO/IEC 14882:2003, standard. The current C++14 standard supersedes these and C++11, with new features and an enlarged standard library. Before the initial standardization in 1998, C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs since 1979, as an extension of the C language as he wanted an efficient and flexible language similar to C, which also provided high-level features for program organization.
Many other programming languages have been influenced by C++, including C#, D, Java, and newer versions of C (after 1998).