What is the origin of c plus plus language?

Answer 1

The origin of C++ is 'C with Classes', which was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup between 1978 and 1983, at which point the name changed to C++. Bjarne originally developed 'C with Classes' as an extension to C, chiefly adding object-oriented programming to the language along with other extensions. He chose C as the basis for the language because it was one of the most popular languages at the time, and was fast, portable and general purpose. However the OOP extensions were inspired primarily by Simula, as well as other languages including ALGOL 68, Ada, CLU and ML.

Answer 2

That depends how far back you want to go...

C++ (1983), originally known as C with Classes (1979) as an extension to C (1972), which was primarily influenced by B (1969), which was a superset of BCPL (1966), which was a simplified version of CPL (1963) which was influenced by ALGOL60 (1960). If you go back far enough you'll find some variation of assembly language and the machine code that started it all off. Other languages that directly or indirectly influenced the development of C and C++ include FORTRAN (1957), ALGOL68 (1968), PL/1 (1964), Simula (1967), Ada 83 (1983), CLU (1974), ML (1973), amongst many, many others.

Answer 3

C++ evolved from C. Bjarne Stroustrup began development in 1978, on what was originally titled 'C with Classes', and was released in 1983, by then called C++.

Answer 4

C++ originated as a super-set of C. It includes features of C, along with added features like exception-handling, support for object oriented programming using classes etc.