1) Availability. C++ can be used on a variety of computers ranging from personal computers to supercomputers.

2) Portability. C++ is in the last stages of standardization, and this process has been closely followed by compiler vendors, ensuring quick availability of a common standard language.

3) Speed. Even with the speed of modern computers there are problems for which efficiency of language is of paramount importance. C++ inherits the speed of C.

4) Computation and into realms of graphics and robotics. The C++ language is not only suited for formulas and computations (FORTRAN's strong suit), it can be used effectively in data base and business applications (COBOL's strong suit).

5) Reusability. Clearly it would be an advantage to use previously written code if it can be inserted into one's current project. The capability of easy re-use and modification of existing code to fit new problems is an important feature of the C++ language.

6) Object Orientation. As computers have become larger and faster, they have been programmed to solve larger and more complex problems.

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a strategy for simplifying the programming task, and is supported by the language features of C++.

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http://aspire.cs.uah.edu/t extbook/introcomp6003.html

Answered by Alok Gupta , an ibibo Guru, at 4:15 PM on June 02, 2009

C++ is 99% a superset of C. It's a little more strict in syntax, with a few very minute differences in terms of things changing.

The biggest difference is that C++ makes an attempt at being object oriented. There's native support for classes.

There's a few other perks in C++: templates, stream operators, pass-by-reference (a bit less confusing than pass-by-pointer)

What do you lose out for going C++? It's missing some of the lowest-level hacks that a lot of people use C for. I don't remember any of them offhand, but I've never heard any good argument for tricking the compiler into doing what you want except as a way to push efficiency that extra 10%.

Answered by Manoj , an ibibo Specialist, at 10:26 AM on June 01, 2009