C++ is a statically typed, compiled, general-purpose, case-sensitive, irregular programming language that supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming and generic programming.

C++ is considered a mid-level language that combines the features of high-level and low-level languages.

C++ was designed and developed by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1979 at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. C++ further extended and improved the C language, originally named C with classes and later renamed C++ in 1983.

C++ is a superset of C. In fact, any legal C program is a legal C++ program.

C++ string syntax

C++ provides the following two types of string representations:

C-style string

The string class type introduced by C++

C++ string example

#include  using namespace std; int main (){ char greeting[6] = {'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0'}; cout << "Greeting message: "; cout << greeting << endl; return 0;}