was instrumental in developing powerful applications for Microsoftc Windowsc, as

well as many Linux environments, and other well-known operating systems. C++ quickly

became the standard language for commercial software development (Oualine).

OOP, an abbreviation for object-oriented programming is simply code that "attempts

to place a new layer of abstraction between the programmer and the data he is

working with ... this layer will help the programmer develop better code more quickly

than he could do before." (McHale). OOP languages must include four fundamental

concepts before it may reasonably be defined as object-oriented (O-O):

encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance and the ability to be dynamic (McHale).

C++ was designed and implemented by Bjarne Stroustrup, of AT&T Bell Labs. His

development, originally called "C with classes" was a marriage between a language

called Simula67 with object-orientated features and C, which was powerful and efficient

John Backus at IBM developed Fortran in 1956. Fortran, an abbreviation an

2. Duffy, Tom. C++ Success Story; Competitors have predicted its demise, but use of C++ continues to grow. Computerworld September 13, 1999: 98

mechanisms were also profoundly influenced by Ada and Clu as well as the

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