C++
<language> One of the most used object-oriented languages, a superset of
C developed primarily by Bjarne Stroustrup
<bs@alice.att.com> 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,
Unix ANSI C++ - X3J16 committee. (They're workin' on it).
See also cfront, LEDA, uC++.
Usenet newsgroup: comp.lang.c++.
["The C++ Programming Language", Bjarne Stroustrup, A-W, 1986].
(1996-06-06)
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