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About the C++ Programming Language

By David Bolton, About.com

Definition: C++ is a programming language invented by Bjarne Stroustrup in the early 1980s as a way to add Object Oriented Programming to C. It is the main development language on Win 32 and Unix systems but is starting to be replaced on .NET by C#.

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