C++ standard

C++

Paradigm	Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, generic
Designed by	Bjarne Stroustrup
First appeared	1983; 34 years ago (1983)
Stable release	ISO/IEC 14882:2014 / 15 December 2014; 2 years ago (2014-12-15)
Typing discipline	Static, nominative, partially inferred
Implementation language	C++
Filename extensions	.cc .cpp .cxx .C .c++ .h .hh .hpp .hxx .h++
Website	isocpp.org
Major implementations
LLVM Clang, GCC, Microsoft Visual C++, Embarcadero C++Builder, Intel C++ Compiler, IBM XL C++
Influenced by
Ada, ALGOL 68, C, CLU, ML, Simula
Influenced
Ada 95, C#,C99, Chapel,D, Java,Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Rust, Nim

C++ (pronounced cee plus plus /ˈsiː plʌs plʌs/) is a general-purpose programming language. It has imperative, object-oriented and generic 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. C++ has also been found useful in many other contexts, with key strengths being software infrastructure and resource-constrained applications, 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 compiled language, with implementations of it available on many platforms. Many vendors provide C++ compilers, including the Free Software Foundation, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM.