C/C++
"We treat these together because
the two languages are intimately linked and are most accurately thought
of as variants of the same language. C++ is, in fact, a superset
of C: It contains everything that C does plus numerous additions.
The C language was developed in the early 1970's at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
It proved to be such a powerful and flexible language that it's use spread
rapidly, and it is
now probably the most popular language
used by professional programmers working on the PC and other platforms.
C is a
procedural language, and as program
complexity increased, programmers needed to be able to use an object-oriented
approach. Rather than start from scratch, it seemed a good idea to
expand C to give it object-oriented capabilities. The result was
C++."