The C++ Programming Language

The C++ Programming Language - book by Bjarne Stroustrup. This book is the 5336^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The C++ Programming Language” in English Wikipedia has 20.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.1 points.

This article has the best quality in Ukrainian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “The C++ Programming Language”, its content was written by 73 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 129 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The C++ Programming Language is on the 5336^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 22 times in English Wikipedia and cited 64 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #55353 in September 2012
• Global: #139515 in November 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #86029 in October 2011
• Global: #143253 in October 2011

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Ukrainian (uk) Мова програмування С++ (книга)		23.9903
2	Chinese (zh) C++程式語言 (書)		22.1781
3	Arabic (ar) لغة البرمجة سي++ (كتاب)		21.7383
4	English (en) The C++ Programming Language		20.8958
5	Armenian (hy) C++ ծրագրավորման լեզու (գիրք)		20.8673
6	Persian (fa) زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی++ (کتاب)		19.2978
7	Russian (ru) Язык программирования C++ (книга)		17.7165
8	Korean (ko) C++ 프로그래밍 언어 (책)		12.2093
9	Finnish (fi) The C++ Programming Language		3.7711
10	Greek (el) The C++ Programming Language		1.1586

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "The C++ Programming Language" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The C++ Programming Language		906 771
2	Russian (ru) Язык программирования C++ (книга)		112 887
3	Chinese (zh) C++程式語言 (書)		19 941
4	French (fr) The C++ Programming Language		10 550
5	Korean (ko) C++ 프로그래밍 언어 (책)		10 146
6	Ukrainian (uk) Мова програмування С++ (книга)		8 160
7	Arabic (ar) لغة البرمجة سي++ (كتاب)		4 614
8	Greek (el) The C++ Programming Language		3 476
9	Armenian (hy) C++ ծրագրավորման լեզու (գիրք)		1 937
10	Persian (fa) زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی++ (کتاب)		936

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "The C++ Programming Language" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The C++ Programming Language		1 040
2	Russian (ru) Язык программирования C++ (книга)		151
3	Chinese (zh) C++程式語言 (書)		73
4	French (fr) The C++ Programming Language		22
5	Korean (ko) C++ 프로그래밍 언어 (책)		20
6	Armenian (hy) C++ ծրագրավորման լեզու (գիրք)		19
7	Persian (fa) زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی++ (کتاب)		10
8	Greek (el) The C++ Programming Language		8
9	Finnish (fi) The C++ Programming Language		7
10	Ukrainian (uk) Мова програмування С++ (книга)		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "The C++ Programming Language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The C++ Programming Language		73
2	Russian (ru) Язык программирования C++ (книга)		13
3	French (fr) The C++ Programming Language		8
4	Greek (el) The C++ Programming Language		7
5	Armenian (hy) C++ ծրագրավորման լեզու (գիրք)		5
6	Chinese (zh) C++程式語言 (書)		5
7	Persian (fa) زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی++ (کتاب)		4
8	Finnish (fi) The C++ Programming Language		4
9	Korean (ko) C++ 프로그래밍 언어 (책)		4
10	Ukrainian (uk) Мова програмування С++ (книга)		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "The C++ Programming Language" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) لغة البرمجة سي++ (كتاب)		1
2	Greek (el) The C++ Programming Language		0
3	English (en) The C++ Programming Language		0
4	Persian (fa) زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی++ (کتاب)		0
5	Finnish (fi) The C++ Programming Language		0
6	French (fr) The C++ Programming Language		0
7	Armenian (hy) C++ ծրագրավորման լեզու (գիրք)		0
8	Korean (ko) C++ 프로그래밍 언어 (책)		0
9	Russian (ru) Язык программирования C++ (книга)		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Мова програмування С++ (книга)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "The C++ Programming Language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The C++ Programming Language		22
2	Russian (ru) Язык программирования C++ (книга)		9
3	Ukrainian (uk) Мова програмування С++ (книга)		8
4	Chinese (zh) C++程式語言 (書)		6
5	Arabic (ar) لغة البرمجة سي++ (كتاب)		5
6	French (fr) The C++ Programming Language		5
7	Korean (ko) C++ 프로그래밍 언어 (책)		3
8	Greek (el) The C++ Programming Language		2
9	Persian (fa) زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی++ (کتاب)		2
10	Finnish (fi) The C++ Programming Language		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لغة البرمجة سي++ (كتاب)
el	Greek The C++ Programming Language
en	English The C++ Programming Language
fa	Persian زبان برنامه‌نویسی سی++ (کتاب)
fi	Finnish The C++ Programming Language
fr	French The C++ Programming Language
hy	Armenian C++ ծրագրավորման լեզու (գիրք)
ko	Korean C++ 프로그래밍 언어 (책)
ru	Russian Язык программирования C++ (книга)
uk	Ukrainian Мова програмування С++ (книга)
zh	Chinese C++程式語言 (書)

Best Rank

English: #86029 10.2011

Global: #143253 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #55353 09.2012

Global: #139515 11.2024

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