C++ is a high-performance, general-purpose, compiled programming language developed by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs as an extension of the C programming language. It is widely celebrated for its multi-paradigm architecture, enabling developers to write code using procedural, object-oriented, or generic programming styles. Because it grants programmers a high degree of control over system resources and memory, it is the primary language used to build large-scale software infrastructure, video games, and resource-constrained embedded systems