C++
<language> One of the most used
object-oriented languages, a superset of
C developed primarily by
Bjarne Stroustrup <
[email protected]> at
AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986.
In C++ a
class is a user-defined
type, syntactically a
struct with member functions.
Constructors and destructors are member functions called to create or destroy instances.
A
friend is a nonmember function that is allowed to access the private portion of a class.
C++ allows
implicit type conversion, function inlining,
overloading of operators and function names, and default function arguments.
It has
streams for I/O and references.
C++ 2.0 (May 1989) introduced
multiple inheritance, type-safe linkage, pointers to members, and abstract classes.
C++ 2.1 was introduced in ["Annotated C++ Reference Manual", B. Stroustrup et al, A-W 1990].
MS-DOS (ftp://grape.ecs.clarkson.edu/pub/msdos/djgpp/djgpp.zip), Unix ANSI C++ (ftp://gnu.org/pub/gnu/g++-1.39.0.tar.Z) - X3J16 committee. (They're workin' on it).
See also cfront,
LEDA,
uC++.
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.c++.
["The C++ Programming Language", Bjarne Stroustrup, A-W, 1986].
