C++ programming language: How it became the invisible foundation for everything, and what’s next Your email has been sent Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet ...

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

A further boost to the success of C came with the publication, in 1978, of The C Programming Language by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan. The book, a slim 228 page volume, was, even for the ...

The crazy origin story of the C programming language, and how it became a success with the help of some incredibly slow computers.

Dennis Ritchie started developing the C programming language (Fig. 1) in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1972, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan delivered the quintessential book, The C ...

Wired speaks to Bjarne Stroustup -- the inventor of the C++ programming language -- 25 years after its invention 1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published.

A group working on the development of the hugely popular C++ programming language has outlined a path to make the language "memory safe" -- just like its younger rival, Rust. Widespread warnings ...