C++

Description: C++ is an object-oriented "superset" of the C language (hence the name). It is not pure OO.

The gcc compiler (see my C language page) also compiles C++.

History: Bjarne Stroustrup invented C++ in the early 1980s, at Bell Labs. The current standard was set in 1998.

Applications: C++ is a general purpose programming language widely used in many different commercial and non-commercial applications (too many to list).

Here are a couple of other C++ compilers...

Digital Mars home page (free C++ compiler here)
Dev-C++ language at Sourceforge