History of C & C++

During 1950-1960, all computers used only high level Languages. FORTRAN was used by engineers and researchers. And COBOL for buisness. In 1960 ALGOL came into existence. It was too abstract and too general. And it was very difficult to understand. So in 1963 a new language called "CPL" (Combined Programming Language) was invented. Then Mr.Martin Richard, did some modification and made it simple and named it as "BCPL" (Basic Combined Programming Language) .It did not satisfy the programmers. In 1967,Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritche created a new os at Bell Laboratories. That OS was called UNIX. Meanwhile Mr.Ken Thompson also created a compiler for FORTRAN. At that time a new language grew. That was called "B". B was depended upon an Interpreter. that is, a translator was required to translate B.

In 1972, Dennis Ritche found a new language called "C" which was remake of "B". Then In 1980,Bjorne Stroustrup added some new concepts to "C". There was a lot of confusion in naming the new language. There were 2 groups. One said that "After C there is P in BCPL,So we name it as P". The other group said that, "After B and C, D is placed alphabetically. So we name it as D".
After consulting these 2 groups they decide to name it as "CDP"(C Double Plus).

So, C Double plus was written symbolically as C++.. And eventually people was started calling it "C plus plus"..

Hows that ??????

( Taken from one of the Orkut communities... )