The developers of Carbon acknowledge that C++ remains the dominant programming language for building performance-critical software and has massive and growing code bases and investments. Carbon ...

REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 19, 2001 — Stanley Lippman, one of the pioneers of the C++ computer programming language, has joined Microsoft as an architect in the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group.

C++ was ratified as a language standard by ISO/ANSI in 1997. Microsoft’s extensive history with C++ began in 1992 with the Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 compiler, which became Visual C++ in 1993. Visual C++ ...