History of C++ | Razsoft Education
History of C++ C++ programming language was created by Bajarne Stroustrup in 1979. To support the Object Oriented Programming (OOP) approach while remaining as fast and compatible as C. Initially it’s called “C with classes”. Because it carries every feature of C but added OOP feature to it. Later in 1983 it’s renamed as C++. By seeing its popularity ANSI and ISO started standardizing it and created C++98, first international version of C++. It has feature of template for generic programming. In 2017, C++17 come out which added support for multithreading. At the time writing this blog C++20 is current version.