C++ HISTORY (cont.)

• 1989 C standard was approved

• ANSI/ISO collaborated to standardize it world-wide in 1990 (ANSI/ISO 9899)

• 2nd edition of K&R 1988 reflected this new standard.

• C++, an extension to C, was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in early 1980's at Bell Labs.

  • "spruce up" the C language
  • Provide capabilities for object-oriented programming