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COM1100-Winter2000-Yuhong Yin
Northeastern University
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The Origins of C++
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In 1970’s, Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs
created the C programming language under
UNIX
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Many ideas came from a programming
language BCPL(Basic Combined
Programming Language, or B)
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C++ was developed in 1985 at Bell Labs by
Bjarne Stroustrup
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