3. C++ in industry and research

The C++ language has been used for complete or partial programming of a wide range of industrial and research applications.

The language's designer, Bjarne Stroustrup, maintains a personal web page listing a range of systems, applications and libraries developed in C++ (see ). While it's difficult to appreciate the true value of object-oriented language in simple C-style programming, it's worth pointing out the diversity of the fields involved, for example :

• operating systems, in particular Microsoft's Windows family, Apple OS X, Sun Solaris, Linux's KDE (K Desktop Environment), Unix's CDE (Common Desktop Environment) graphical interface, etc. ;

• compilers, such as C, C++ and Fortran 90 from Hewlett Packard ;

• graphical interfaces (ILOG...