C++ in Academia and in

¶ … C++ in academia and in industry. Explain the pros and cons of C++ as a programming language. Few programming languages have ever become so essential to a programmer's education than as C++ is to a programmer's repertoire today. The language has developed to be fast and efficient, however its critics consider the language to be considerably difficult and lacking key modern features. Academia and industry, however, have considered C++ to be their core language for applications from word processors to the latest video games.

C++ is the single most important language for a young programmer to master today, surpassing .Net, C#, and even Java, in order to have the best foundation for a career in computer programming. Work on C++ began as a result of limitations in the C. programming language.

Bjarne Stroustrup, an AT&T labs employee, created C++ in 1979 as a project called "C with Classes." This project was intended to use the positive features of "Simula," a language that developed the idea of objects, classes, and garbage collection, with the already widely used C. language. This unique combination of the positive features of Simula, which was built for speed, and the ubiquitous knowledge of C, which was built for general understanding, created what we now know today to be C++.

At first, Stroustrup had C++ features be pushed into a C. platform, but later in 1985 released C++ for commercial use on its own. The language has been constantly updated since 1985, with C++ 2.0 in 1989, and an updated version of that released in 1991. Since then C++ has continued to grow and be updated to its modern, extremely multifaceted form as it exists today.

The greatest positive features of C++ are the fact that it has fast language, where objects and complicated ideas which in more traditional languages are extremely difficult to develop, are already build into the system, which already give it a step ahead, and this is on top of a general use and a very flexible use or format that comes from the language C. Therefore, it takes the simplicity and widespread use of C.

And includes more complex ideas, which ultimately are necessary for the more modern utilization of applications, especially in the 1980's but which are still utilized today. C++ has been surpassed in certain areas by other languages, particularly Java and C#, but C++ is considered a core language still because it does not have the bulk of those aforementioned language either; it is ideal to test a program with basic knowledge through C++ as it is today still the most well-rounded and difficult/requiring great knowledge language.

Another positive of C++ is that it draws on very basic concepts that humans can understand, such as the concept of if, then. These concepts are abstract in nature, which have in the past been extremely perplexing to programmers; however since C++ has the very nature of these abstract ideas built into its language, humans have found its language to be far friendlier than its predecessor.

Humans have found these positives of C++ to be instrumental in dozens upon dozens of applications; however there are those who critize the language for its several shortcomings. One of the largest criticisms of C++ is how large and cumbersome it has become, making the full utilization of the language difficult because of its large feature set and its set-in-stone rules, which demands a great amount of complication which becomes frustrating to keep track of. Also, C++ lacks native multithreading capabilities, which is a feature loss from.