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Introduction
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Background
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**C is great**:

* One has control over everything
* Dominant language for years
* Real Men don't do Object Oriented Programming

**But** ...

* Same bugs over and over

  * Memory leaks and other cleanup
  * Dangling pointers
  * ...

* The need for inheritance was obvious even without language support

  * Implementation idioms were similar
  * ... but never the same
  * ... and always had to have too much code

History
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* 1980: Bjarne Stroustrup - "C with Classes"
* 1983: C++
* 1985: The C++ Reference Manual (Stroustrup)
* 1990: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual (Stroustrup)
* 1998: C++ ISO/IEC 14882:1998 - C++98

  * Standard Template Library

* 2003: Standard Revision (Fix) - C++03
* 2005 ...: Technical Reports (Fixes)
* 2011: C++11, C++14, ...

  * Library extension
  * New syntax (Unification with C, ...)

Content
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* Data encapsulation - *Object*

  * Constructor, destructor
  * Access control: ``public``, ``protected``,
    ``private``
  * Methods and operators (*Copy!*)

* Inheritance

  * Classic OO Design |longrightarrow| science on its own

* Templates
* Standard Library and Standard Template Library (STL)

  * String
  * IO streams
  * Container classes
  * Threading