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Provided the first-edition reference and tutorial for C++, documenting its C-compatible design together with type checking, data abstraction, operator overloading and object-oriented programming facilities.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact first-edition book, which the author dates to 1985. Some bibliographic records use 1986; earlier language design, compiler implementation, later editions and ISO standardization remain separate.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact first-edition book, which the author dates to 1985. Some bibliographic records use 1986; earlier language design, compiler implementation, later editions and ISO standardization remain separate.
Contributors
- Bjarne Stroustrup · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Stroustrup page for The C++ Programming Language first edition
- DBLP record for The C++ Programming Language
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