Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent ...

Ritchie was better known as a co-creator of Unix, but he also invented the C programming language back in 1971. Jeong Kim, President of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs confirmed his passing earlier today.

C++’s origins date back to 1979, when Bjarne Stroustrup, the programming language’s creator, first began work on the language that was then known as “C with Classes”.

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs confirmed today that Ritchie died October 8th. He was best known as the co-creator of Unix and creator of the C programming language, both at Bell Labs.

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

Bjarne Straustrup also spoke about efforts to improve the security of the programming language. Of the billions of lines of C++, only a few are fully compliant with modern guidelines, and people’s ...

C++ emerged in 1985 and remains one of the most popular languages, in part due to its performance. It is standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the latest ...

Mastering the C programming language - a classic code environment used to build software, apps, and whole operating systems - is a great skill, and Mac OS X makes it easy to learn.