The programming language C++ dates back to 1979, when Bjarne Stroustrup, a Danish computer scientist, was researching for his Ph.D. thesis. Stroustrup began working on a programming language he called “C with Classes”; as the name implies, it was intended to be an extension of the C language. The initial idea was to add object-oriented programming to the C language, which was then and remains to be a great language for its portability, low-level functionality, and speed. His language, what would later be called C++, added classes, inheritance, function arguments, and type checking in addition to all the features of the C language.
