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Carolina Saracho: C++ (Pronounced Cee Plus Plus, / Si

C++ is a general-purpose programming language that has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features. It was designed for system programming and embedded applications with a focus on performance, efficiency and flexibility. C++ is widely used for software like desktop apps, servers, and performance-critical systems.

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Carolina Saracho: C++ (Pronounced Cee Plus Plus, / Si

C++ is a general-purpose programming language that has imperative, object-oriented and generic programming features. It was designed for system programming and embedded applications with a focus on performance, efficiency and flexibility. C++ is widely used for software like desktop apps, servers, and performance-critical systems.

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Carolina Saracho

C++ (pronounced cee plus plus, /si pls pls/) is a general-purpose programming language. It
has imperative, object-oriented andgeneric programming

features,

while

also

providing

facilities for low-level memory manipulation.


It was designed with a bias toward system programming and embedded, resource-constrained
and large systems, with performance, efficiency and flexibility of use as its design highlights.
[5]

C++ has also been found useful in many other contexts, with key strengths being software

infrastructure and resource-constrained applications, [5] including desktop applications, servers


(e.g. e-commerce,web

search or SQL servers),

and

performance-critical

applications

(e.g. telephone switches or space probes). C++ is a compiledlanguage, with implementations


[6]

of it available on many platforms and provided by various organizations, including the Free
Software Foundation (FSF's GCC), LLVM, Microsoft, Intel and IBM.
C++ is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), with the latest
standard

version

ratified

and

published

by

ISO

in

December

2014

as ISO/IEC

14882:2014 (informally known as C++14).[7] The C++ programming language was initially
standardized in 1998 as ISO/IEC 14882:1998, which was then amended by the C+
+03, ISO/IEC 14882:2003, standard. The current C++14 standard supersedes these and C+
+11, with new features and an enlarged standard library. Before the initial standardization in
1998, C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs since 1979, as an extension of
the C language as he wanted an efficient and flexible language similar to C, which also
provided high-level features for program organization.
Many other programming languages have been influenced by C++, including C#, Java, and
newer versions of C (after 1998).

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