cpp

Basic idea

C plus classes, templates, RAII, and operator overloading (Stroustrup, 1985). Multi-paradigm, zero-overhead-by-default, extraordinarily expressive — and extraordinarily complex.

Key facts

• Year / creator: 1985, Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs.
• Paradigm: OO + generic (templates) + procedural + functional.
• Typing: static, strong-ish.
• Memory: manual + RAII smart pointers (unique_ptr, shared_ptr).
• Standards: C++98/03, C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, C++23.

Siblings

• c
• c 1
• Erlang
• Go
• Haskell
• Java
• JavaScript
• Lua
• Racket
• risc v
• Rust
• TypeScript
• x86 Assembly