[pjmlp]

Microsoft made the proposal for C++, after Midori project, and Office security improvements.

Which by your comment, you have no clue about how it came to be.

Proposal is linked in another comment of mine.

[spacechild1]

Well, you could have linked an actual proposal instead of dropping some cool facts about C, Extended Pascal, Mesa/Cedar and Modula-2, as if that explained anything.