History of C++ :

Background History:

1. C++ Development started in 1979.
2. During the creation of Ph.D. thesis, Bjarne Stroustrup worked with language called Simula.
3. Simula is basically useful for the simulation work.
4. Simula was first language to support object-oriented programming paradigm.
5. Bjarne Stroustrup identified that this OOP features can be included in the software development.
6. After that Bjarne Stroustrup started working on the C language and added more extra OOP features to the classic C.
7. C++ includes some add-on features such as classes, basic inheritance, in-lining, default function arguments, and strong type checking.  

Basic History:

1. During 1970 Dennis Ritchie created C Programming language.
2. C++ is also called as C with classes.
3. In C we have already used increment operator (++). Therefore we called C++ as “Incremented C” means Extension to C.

Creator of C++ :

Softwares Use for C++ :

   Following softwares are mostly used:

1. Visual C++
2. Borland C++
3. Dev C++
4. Turbo C++