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[QUOTE="Chris H, post: 4184909"]
Looking at the chart on the wall C was incrementally developed from
BCPL that came from CPL.

in the 1970's  we had K&R C, the first definition.
ANSI/ISO C was standardised in 1989/90 and then ISO C in  95 and 99

C++ was developed from "C with Classes"  (1980)  which was developed
from 1975 K&R C  AND Simula 68

C++ came about in 1985 ish  with influences from Algo 68 and additional
input from Simula 68

So there is a LOT  of Simula in C++  as well as Algo

Moving on... in   1990 we had C++ ARM,( Annotated Reference Manual not
ARM MCU's )  developed from C++  but also with influences from Ada, ANSI
C, ML and CLu

C++ was further developed into the mid 90's when it became an ISO
standard.

So whilst sharing syntax that appears similar  C and C++  diverged in
197* and whilst C carried on in one direction C++ was a hybrid of C and
Simula which was developed independently from C with influenced from 5
other languages.

The confusion generally arises because in the early days  (from memory)
a front end call C-Front was used to translate C++ into C for
compilation until C++ compilers were built from scratch.

Thus the myth started that C++ was a super set of C.
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