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The inheritance of C++

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Programming in C++

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C++ is a recent programming language developed to exploit some of the latest software engineering methodologies that aim to make software easier to develop, easier to enlarge, and as reliable as possible. It is an enhanced and extended form of one of the major structured, imperative, languages, C, using features first found in related languages such as Simula, Pascal, and Ada, and features found in object-oriented programming languages.

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© 1994 Jean Ettinger

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Ettinger, J. (1994). The inheritance of C++. In: Programming in C++. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23304-5_1

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