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This chapter reviews C++: what it is, its history and its future. Alternative object-oriented programming languages are reviewed and we examine what is actually meant by object-oriented programming and what we should expect from an object-oriented programming language.
I’m an explorer, okay? I like to find out. Richard Feynman (Sykes, 1994)
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See also the articles by Ritchie (1993) and Stroustrup (1993a) on the development of C and C++ in the ACM SIGPLAN Second History of Programming Languages Conference.
For a fascinating discussion of the early history of Smalltalk refer to Kay (1993).
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Where possible, the Booch ( 1994) notation has been adopted throughout this book for diagrammatically illustrating classes, objects and their interactions.
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Seed, G.M. (1996). Overview. In: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in C++. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3378-0_1
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