Image: National Academy of Engineering C++’s origins date back to 1979, when Bjarne Stroustrup, the programming language’s creator ... at large through his books, articles, and interviews ...

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming ... notes that C++ has an image problem when it comes to safety, but puts that down to other languages marketing themselves ...

This month C++ became the fastest-growing programming language in the world, according to Tiobe, which publishes a monthly index of the most popular programming languages. C++ is currently the ...

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published ... Wired: Do you read e-books? Stroustrup: Infrequently, and mostly very light literature.

C++ is a general purpose, object-oriented programming language that can be used to develop operating systems, games, graphical user interfaces, back end, and high-performance systems and applications.