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[C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B) (pronounced cee plus plus)
is a general purpose programming language developed by
[Bjarne Stroustrup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup)
starting in 1979 at Bell Labs. It is  immensely  popular,  particularly
for  applications  that  require  speed  and/or  access to  some
low-level  features.  It is considered to be an intermediate level
language, as it encapsulates both high and low level language features.

C++ supports [procedural](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming),
[object-oriented](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming),
[functional](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming)
and [generic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming)
programming. C++ runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows,
Mac OS, and the various versions of UNIX.

Key Benefits:
- Type safety
    - Encapsulate necessary unsafe operations
- Resource safety
    - Not all resource management is managing memory
- Performance
    - For some parts of almost all systems, it's important
- Predictability
    - For hard and soft real-time systems
- Teachability
    - Complexity of code should be proportional to the complexity of the task
- Readability
    - People and machines ("analyzability")
- Direct map to hardware
    - of instructions and fundamental data types
- Zero-overhead abstraction
    - Classes with constructors and destructors, inheritance, generic
    programming, functional programming techniques

The standard for C++ is maintained by the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO), and the current version of C++ as of December
2014 is C++14 (named not as the 14th version of C++, but rather
signifying that the standard was ratified in 2014).

The best thing about C++ is that it runs on everything from embedded
processors with very limited resources to the largest mainframe
supercomputer and every personal computer in between.

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