A Better C?

30 years ago, on its August 1988 edition, Byte Magazine (ask your parents) published a feature article by Bjarne Stroustroup about C++. Titled A Better C?  the article introduces C++ to the C community. In addition it introduces OOP concepts and data abtraction. In that article, Stroustroup advocates the use of C++ to overcome C weaknesses without losing its strengths.

1988 also saw the birth of Zortech C++ the first true C++ compiler for MS-DOS (ask your grandparents). There is a Zortech C++ ad in the same edition:

That edition also includes a story by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernigham about the state of C and the then forthcoming of the first ANSI C standard.

August was the month of the traditional C edition of Byte (other magazines also followed the tradtion).

The full edition of Byte August 1988 can be found at archive.org