(PhysOrg.com) -- This past week in Madrid, Spain, the next iteration of the C++ programming language, C++11, passed review by the technical standards committee.

Iteration is the process of repeating steps. For example, a very simple algorithm for eating breakfast cereal might consist of these steps: put cereal in bowl add milk to cereal spoon cereal and milk ...

Tiobe recognized C++ as the programming language with the biggest gain in popularity in 2022. C and Python were the runners-up.