The Genesis of C++
Like C, C++ began its life at Bell Labs, where Bjarne Stroustrup developed the language in the early 1980s. In Stroustrup’s own words, “C++ was designed primarily so that my friends and I would not have to program in assembler, C, or various modern high-level languages. Its main purpose was to make writing good programs easier and more pleasant for the individual programmer” (Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, Third Edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997).
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