One of the most used
object-oriented languages, a
superset of
C developed primarily by
Bjarne Stroustrup
<bs@alice.att.com> at
AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986.
In C++ a
class is a user-defined
type, syntactically a
struct with member functions. Constructors and
destructors are member functions called to create or destroy
instances. A
friend is a nonmember function that is
allowed to access the private portion of a class. C++ allows
implicit type conversion,
function inlining,
overloading
of operators and function names, and default function arguments. It has
streams for I/O and references.
C++ 2.0 (May 1989) introduced
multiple inheritance,
type-safe linkage, pointers to members, and abstract classes.
C++ 2.1 was introduced in ["Annotated C++ Reference Manual",
B. Stroustrup et al, A-W 1990].
MS-DOS,
Unix ANSI C++ - X3J16
committee. (They're workin' on it).
See also cfront,
LEDA,
uC++.
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.c++.
["The C++ Programming Language", Bjarne Stroustrup, A-W,
1986].