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Analysis Of The C++ Programming Language Abstract C++ has had a phenomenal growth since it’s beginnings in the early 1980’s and has taken it’s place as one of the premier programming languages in use today. This paper examines the history, purpose and expectations of the C++ language and emphasizes the Object Oriented basis that has made C++ so popular. Analysis Of The C++ Programming Language Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a software development paradigm that has passed the test of time. The key concepts if OOP, inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation provide the programmer an abstraction that models the real world of objects or things. These key concepts came from simulation – the technology to simulate or model the real world in a computer. These concepts form the basis of the C++ computer language. Origins To find the origins of C++, one must travel around the world to a place that has spawned much original thought, Scandinavia, in particular, Norway. Here in the early 1960’s, Kristen Nygaard led a group of scientists in developing a radical new programming language (Holmevik, 1995) for simulation. This was to be “a precise language which allows a description of a network in terms of standard