Special edition of the most widely read and most reliable book on C++. The book was written by Bjarne Stroustrup, the author of the C++ programming language, and is a canonical presentation of the capabilities of this language. In addition to a detailed description of the language itself, on the pages of the book you will find proven approaches to solving a variety of design and programming problems. Numerous examples demonstrate both good programming style in the C-compatible C++ kernel and a modern -oriented approach to creating software products. The third edition of the bestseller was significantly revised by the author. The result of this reworking was the greater accessibility of the book for beginners. At the same time, the text has been enriched with information and programming techniques that can be useful even for experienced C++ specialists. The innovations of the language are also not ignored: the standard template library (STL), namespaces, the run-time type identification mechanism (RTTI), explicit type casts (cast operators) and others. This special edition differs from the third by the addition of two new ones applications (dedicated to localization and safe exception handling using the standard library), quite a few clarifications in the rest of the text, as well as corrections of many typos. The book is addressed to programmers who use C++ in their daily work. It will also be useful to teachers, students and anyone who wants to get acquainted with the description of the language “first hand.”