Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006

Proceedings - Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, HOPL-III

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Stroustrup, Bjarne ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C++; Evolution; History; ISO; Language use; Libraries; Multi paradigm programming; Programming language; Standardization; STL

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE USE; MULTI-PARADIGM PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PROGRAM COMPILERS; STANDARDIZATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 35348828127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1238844.1238848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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