C++20 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

© J. Burton Browning and Bruce Sutherland 2020

J. B. Browning, B. SutherlandC++20 Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5713-5_2

2. Modern C++

J. Burton Browning¹  and Bruce Sutherland²

(1)

Bolivia, NC, USA

(2)

Carnegie, VIC, Australia

 

Development of the C++ programming language began in 1979 as the C with Classes language. The name C++ was formally adopted in 1983, and development of the language continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s without the adoption of a formal language standard. This all changed in 1998 when the first ISO standard of the C++ programming language was adopted. There have been several updates to the standard published since that time, one in 2003, one in 2011, and one in 2014; and skipping to the most recent version, C++20 ...