A History of C++ by: Chuck C++ and OOP Upon inception, C++ provided an advanced, high-level programming language that was instrumental in developing powerful applications for Microsoft® Windows®, 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 …showed first 75 words of 2973 total…

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