When and where was the C++ programming language first developed?

When and where was the C++ programming language first developed?

• A. 1972 by Dennis Ritchie (Bell Labs of AT&T U.S.A)
• B. 1991 by Linus Torvalds
• C. 1985 by Anders Hejlsberg
• D. 1980 by Bjarne Stroustrup (Bell Laboratories of AT&T U.S.A)

Answer: (D)

C++ began as an extension of the C language to add object-oriented features, and it was developed starting around 1980 by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Laboratories (AT&T) in the United States. He originally called it C with Classes, aiming to combine C’s performance with new programming abstractions, and the language later evolved into C++. This makes the development year and place described in that option the best match, since the other figures were associated with different projects: Dennis Ritchie created C in the 1970s at Bell Labs, Linus Torvalds started the Linux project in 1991, and Anders Hejlsberg worked on languages like Turbo Pascal and later C#.

C++ began as an extension of the C language to add object-oriented features, and it was developed starting around 1980 by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Laboratories (AT&T) in the United States. He originally called it C with Classes, aiming to combine C’s performance with new programming abstractions, and the language later evolved into C++. This makes the development year and place described in that option the best match, since the other figures were associated with different projects: Dennis Ritchie created C in the 1970s at Bell Labs, Linus Torvalds started the Linux project in 1991, and Anders Hejlsberg worked on languages like Turbo Pascal and later C#.