This is a collection of design documents, source code, and other materials concerning the birth, development, standardization, and use of the C++ programming language.
1979 April
Work on C with Classes began
1979 October
First C with Classes (Cpre) running
1983 August
First C++ in use at Bell Labs
1984
C++ named
1985 February
Cfront Release E (first external C++ release)
1985 October
Cfront Release 1.0 (first commercial release)
The C++ Programming Language
1986
First commercial Cfront PC port (Cfront 1.1, Glockenspiel)
1987 February
Cfront Release 1.2
1987 December
First GNU C++ release (1.13)
1988
First Oregon Software C++ release [announcement]; first Zortech C++ release
1989 June
Cfront Release 2.0
1989
The Annotated C++ Reference Manual; ANSI C++ committee (J16) founded (Washington, DC)
1990
First ANSI X3J16 technical meeting (Somerset, NJ) [see group photograph, courtesy of Andrew Koenig]; templates accepted (Seattle, WA); exceptions accepted (Palo Alto, CA); first Borland C++ release
1991
First ISO WG21 meeting (Lund, Sweden); Cfront Release 3.0 (including templates); The C++ Programming Language (2nd edition)
1992
First IBM, DEC, and Microsoft C++ releases
1993
Run-time type identification accepted (Portland, Oregon); namespaces and string (templatized by character type) accepted (Munich, Germany); A History of C++: 1979-1991 published at HOPL2
1994
string (templatized by character type) (San Diego, California); the STL accepted (San Diego, CA and Waterloo, Canada)
1996
export accepted (Stockholm, Sweden)
1997
Final committee vote on the complete standard (Morristown, New Jersey)
1998
ISO C++ standard ratified
2003
Technical Corrigendum; work on C++0x started
2004
Performance technical report; Library technical report (hash tables, regular expressions, smart pointers, etc.)
2005
First votes on features for C++0x (Lillehammer, Norway); auto, static_assert, and rvalue references accepted in principle
2006
First full committee (official) votes on features for C++0x (Berlin, Germany)
No comments:
Post a Comment