Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C++ Programming Language and C++11 to C++23 Standards

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S. DmitrovićModern C++ for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9274-7_2

2. What Is C++?

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

C++ is a programming language – a standardized, general-purpose, object-oriented, compiled language. Every C++ compiler is accompanied by a set of useful functions and containers called the C++ Standard Library. Bjarne Stroustrup created C++ as an extension to a C programming language. Still, C++ evolved to be a completely different programming language.

Let us emphasize this: C and C++ are two different languages. C++ started as “C with classes,” but it is now a completely different language. So, C++ is not C; C++ ...