Who discovered the c plus plus language?

Answer 1

C++ wasn't discovered. It was an evolutionary development of the C language that came before it. C++ is C-style shorthand for C=C+1, which literally translates as "the successor to C."

As to who invented C++, Bjarne Stroustrup (1950-present) began development in 1979 in an effort to improve upon the OOP-based Simula language by integrating the low-level features of BCPL (basic combined programming language) which was itself a precursor to B (a subset of BCPL) from which C later evolved. Other languages that influenced the development of C++ included Ada, ALGOL 68, CLU and ML.

However, Bjarne chose C as the basis for the new language because it was already in widespread use as a general purpose language, and was both fast and portable. The new language was initially called "C with Classes." The name was changed to C++ in 1983 and the first commercial release was in 1985.

As well as developing the language itself, Bjarne was also responsible for processing extension proposals upon the C++ standards committee, and also wrote the seminal textbook "The C++ Programming Language", a must-have book for any serious C++ developer.

Bjarne Stroustrup was born in Denmark and is currently Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University.