C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at AT & T Bell Laboratories in 1983. The version 1.0 of c++ becomes available in 1983. Version 2.0 in 1989 and version 3.0 in 1992. Before the evaluation of object oriented C++ , many other object oriented languages existed. One of the earliest Object Oriented language that existed was stimula 67 which was developed in Norway in 1968. The object oriented language which existed before C++ was slow and inefficient.
So Bjarne Stroustrup the master of C and Stimula combined the features of both the languages into more powerful language that could support the concepts of object oriented programming ans still retain the features of C. This combination resulted in the development of C with classes in 1979. C with classes lacked some Object Oriented features like operator overloading , virtual functions etc. Therefore later on some ideas were borrowed from ALGOL 68 programming language which were combined with the C with classes that resulted in the formation of C++. The name C++ is credited to Rick Mascitti who suggested this name and was first used in 1983.
The name signifies the evolutionary nature of the changed from C. Moreover , the language is not called D language because it is an extension of C language as in addition to existing feature of C language , new features were added to remove the existing problems. So it was names as C++.
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