History of C/C++
From C to C++
The C programming language was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie in 1972.
Two major dialects of C have been available during the history :
nTraditional C
nANSI C
C++ is built on the base of C by Bjarne Stroustrup in the early 1980’s.
Bjarne Stroustrup
“Traditional C” is the original dialect which was distributed for many years with all Unix systems
ANSI C is an improved dialect standardised by ANSI.
In 1983, with various versions of C floating around the computer world, ANSI established a committee that eventually published a standard for C in 1989.
In 1983 Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs created C++. C++ was designed for the UNIX system environment, it represents an enhancement of the C programming language and enables programmers to improve the quality of code produced, thus making reusable code easier to write.