Thursday, April 9, 2015

Why was C++ invented?

Stroustrup wanted to write efficient systems programs in the styles encouraged by Simula67. To do that, he added facilities for better type checking, data abstraction, and object-oriented programming to C. The more general aim was to design a language in which developers could write programs that were both efficient and elegant. Many languages force you to choose between those two alternatives.


The specific tasks that caused Stroustrup to start designing and implementing C++ (initially called “C with Classes”) had to do with distributing operating system facilities across a network.

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