History of C++ (Programming Language ) !
While Bjarne Stroustrup was working in AT&T Bell Labs in 1979, he faced difficulties in analyzing UNIX kernel for distributed systems. The current languages were either too slow or too low level. So, he set forward to create a new language.
For building this language, he chose C. Why C ? Because it is a general purpose language and is very efficient as well as fast in its operations.
He used his knowledge of object-oriented model from SIMULA and began working on class extensions to C. His aim was to create a language with far higher level of abstraction while retaining the efficiency of C.
This new programming language was named C with Classes, but was later renamed to C++ (++ refers to the increment operator in C).