Core language
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| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, generic |
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| Designed by | Bjarne Stroustrup |
| First appeared | 1983 |
| Stable release |
ISO/IEC 14882:2014 / 15 December 2014
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| Typing discipline | Static, nominative, partially inferred |
| Implementation language | C++ |
| Filename extensions | .cc .cpp .cxx .C .c++ .h .hh .hpp .hxx .h++ |
| Website | isocpp |
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| 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 | |
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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.
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