Computer program

A computer program is a set of instructions written in computer languages to perform a specified task for a computer. A computer program tells the computer that what to do and in which order to do. Different types of programming languages are used to develop programs. Some commonly used programming languages are Python, C++, JAVA, SQL, HTML etc.

C++

C++ is a powerful general-purpose programming language. It can be used to develop operating systems, browsers, games, and so on. C++ supports different ways of programming like procedural, object-oriented, functional, and so on. This makes C++ powerful as well as flexible.

Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs initially developed C++ during the early 1980's. It was designed to support the features of C such as efficiency and low-level support for system level coding. Added to this were features such as classes with inheritance and virtual functions, derived from the Simula language, and operator overloading, derived from Algol. C++ is best described as a superset of C, with full support for object-oriented programming. This language is in wide spread use. The first commercial release of the C++ language was in October of 1985.