Chapter 1. GETTING STARTED
You will learn about the following in this chapter:
How C++ adds object-oriented concepts to the C language
How C++ adds generic programming concepts to the C language
The history and philosophy of C
Procedural versus object-oriented programming
The history and philosophy of C++
Programming language standards
The mechanics of creating a program
Conventions used in this book
Welcome to C++! This exciting language, blending the C language with support for object-oriented programming, has become one of the most important programming languages of the 1990s and promises to continue strongly into the 2000s. Its C ancestry brings to C++ the tradition of an efficient, compact, fast, and portable language. Its object-oriented heritage ...
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