Elements of the C++ Language
If C is the language most associated with UNIX, C++ is the language that underlies most graphical user interfaces available today.
C++ was originally developed by Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup at the Computer Science Research Center of AT&T's Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ), also the source of UNIX itself. Dr. Stroustrup's original goal was an object-oriented simulation language. The availability of C compilers for many hardware architectures convinced him to design the language as an extension of C, allowing a preprocessor to translate C++ programs into C for compilation.
After the C language was standardized by a joint committee of the American National Standards Institute and the International Standards Organization ...
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