Software-testing firm Tiobe, which maintains a monthly tracker of the popularity of the vast array of programming languages available to software developers, has picked C++ as its programming ...

where he designed C++ in 1979. Now, he is a professor of computer science at Columbia University. Drawing on his vast array of experiences, Stroustrup argued that programming education needs more ...

C++ is a general purpose, object-oriented programming language that can be used to develop operating systems, games, graphical user interfaces, back end, and high-performance systems and applications.