ORIGINS OF C++

1. There was a programming language called B that was derived from a language called BCPL.
   
   
2. In the 1970's the C programming language was derived from B by Dennis Ritchie of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
   
   
3. Later in the early 1980's C++ was derived from C by Bjarne Stroustrup of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
   
   
4. Most of C is a subset of C++.