OVERVIEW OF C++

c++ is powerful programming language that had attracted worldwide attention because the software had adopted c++ language .
c++ languaage is portable,portability means that a program written in c++ for one machine can be transferred to another machine with minimum change or no change


HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF C++
c++ WAS developed by bajarne stroustrup at bell-laboratories in 1980. It contains the best fearures of simula 67 and C and designed a language which support OOP features.
therefore we can say that C++ is an extention of C language .
Since the class was a major addition to original C language,Stroustrup called the new language "C with classes".......However in 1983 the name was changed to c++. The idea of c++ comes from c increment operator(++).