Now the language is the one of the most popular with developers and underpins systems and services around the world. SEE: C++ programming language: How it became the foundation for everything ...

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

Carbon, the latest programming language to be built within Google, was unveiled today as an experimental successor to C++. Over the years, Google has created a few programming languages ...

As soon as we’ve accomplished one near-impossible goal ... to become the heir to the C programming language, which has reigned for decades as the go-to portable low-level language and as ...