Author: Bjarne Stroustrup Supported programming paradigms: procedural, object-oriented, generic. Based on on the C programming language. OOP in C++ was inspired by the Simula64 programming language. All C programs are valid C++ programs. The name of the C++ programming language is related to the incremental operator "++". How to create a C++ program: compiling to object files, linking object files to an executable version of the program.

Introduction

Function main()

Function main() is the entrypoint of an C++ application.

Console

How to delay program and wait for the press of the key Enter: cin.get();

Comments

One line: // comment

Multi line: /* comment */

Preprocessor directives

Example: #include <iostream>