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C++ Timeline
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This C++ timeline might help you keep track of where the story is taking you:
1979
May
Work on C with Classes starts
Oct
1st C with Classes implementation in use
1980
Apr
1st internal Bell Labs paper on C with Classes [Stroustrup,1980]
1982
Jan
1st external paper on C with Classes [Stroustrup,1982]
1983
Aug
1st C++ implementation in use
Dec
C++ named
1984
Jan
1st C++ manual
1985
Feb
1st external C++ release (Release E)
Oct
Cfront Release 1.0 (first commercial release)
Oct
The C+ + Programming Language [Stroustrup,1986]
1986
Aug
The “whatis paper” [Stroustrup,1986b]
Sep
1st OOPSLA conference (start of OO hype centered on Smalltalk)
Nov
1st commercial Cfront PC port (Cfront 1.1, Glockenspiel)
1987
Feb
Cfront Release 1.2
Nov
1st USENIX C++ conference (Santa Fe, NM)
Dec
1st GNU C++ release (1.13)
1988
Jan
1st Oregon Software C++ release
June
1st Zortech C++ release
Oct
1st USENIX C++ implementers workshop (Estes Park, CO)
1989
June
Cfront Release 2.0
Dec
ANSI X3J16 organizational meeting (Washington, DC)
1990
May
1st Borland C++ release
Mar
1st ANSI X3J16 technical meeting (Somerset, NJ)
May
The Annotated C+ + Reference Manual [ARM]
July
Templates accepted (Seattle, WA)
Nov
Exceptions accepted (Palo Alto, CA)
1991
June
The C+ + Programming Language (second edition) [2nd]
June
1st ISO WG21 meeting (Lund, Sweden)
Oct
Cfront Release 3.0 (including templates)
1992
Feb
1st DEC C++ release (including templates and exceptions)
Mar
1st Microsoft C++ release
May
1st IBM C++ release (including templates and exceptions)
1993
Mar
Run-time type identification accepted (Portland, OR)
July
Namespaces accepted (Munich, Germany)
1994
Aug
ANSI/ISO Committee Draft registered
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