Introduction to C and C++ Programming C and C++ are foundational programming languages that have shaped the modern digital landscape. Developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs , C was designed for system-level programming and became the primary language for the UNIX operating system. C++ emerged in 1979 as an extension developed by Bjarne Stroustrup , originally called "C with Classes" to add object-oriented features while maintaining the performance of C. Core Comparison Introduction to C Programming