Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Nippon Television, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in manga from until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation ( Now owned by TV Asahi ) produced an anime series of Doraemon.

In September 1979, the civilian government of Hilla Limann inherited declining per capita income ; stagnant industrial and agricultural production due to inadequate imported supplies ; shortages of imported and locally produced goods ; a sizable budget deficit ( almost 40 % of expenditures in 1979 ); high inflation, " moderating " to 54 % in 1979 ; an increasingly overvalued cedi ; flourishing smuggling and other black-market activities ; unemployment and underemployment, particularly among urban youth ; deterioration in the transport network ; and continued foreign exchange constraints.

Heiner Müller's cutting-edge drama " The Hamletmachine " was first produced in Paris by director Jean Jourdheuil in 1979 and swiftly became a classic of postmodern drama.

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

Mary Stewart produced an influential quintet of Arthurian novels, with Merlin as the protagonist in the first three: The Crystal Cave ( 1970 ), The Hollow Hills ( 1973 ) and The Last Enchantment ( 1979 ).

Shanghai Animation Film Studio produced a 13-episode Nasreddin related animation called ' The Story of Afanti '/ 阿凡提 ( 电影 ) in 1979, which became one of the most influential animations in China's history.

In the late 1980s Central TV acquired the Australian soap opera Prisoner, which was produced between 1979 and 1986.

Other European productions included a stop motion-animated series of Tove Jansson's The Moomins ( from 1979, often referred to as " The Fuzzy Felt Moomins "), produced by Film Polski and Jupiter Films.

Jittlov again produced some impressive multi-technique stop motion animation a year later for a 1979 Disney special promoting their release of the feature film The Black Hole.

ITV produced youth-oriented genre programmes during the 1970s, such as Timeslip ( 1970 – 71 ), The Tomorrow People ( 1973 – 79 ), and Children of the Stones ( 1977 ), as well as shows aimed at a wider audience such as the time-travel drama Sapphire & Steel ( 1979 – 82 ).

" These four artists ( ELOY from 1976 to 1979 ) also produced the albums " Ocean ", " Silent Cries And Mighty Echoes ", and " Eloy Live ".

In January 1979, the Undertones recorded their eponymous debut album at Eden Studios in Acton, West London, using producer Roger Bechirian, whom the band had worked with for the first time the previous December, when Bechirian had produced the band's second single, " Get Over You ".

The comic was started in Newcastle upon Tyne in December 1979 by Chris Donald, who produced the comic from his bedroom in his parents ' Jesmond home with help from his brother Simon and friend Jim Brownlow.

The 1979 double album Tusk produced three more US top-20 hits (" Tusk ", which is also the band's first " conceptual " music video, " Sara ", and Christine's " Think About Me "), but it came nowhere near to matching the success of the Rumours album.

It entered service in 1979 and since then 1, 600 units have been produced and put into operation.

* Some models of Texas Instruments home computers produced in 1979 and 1981 ( Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4 and TI-99 / 4A ) were capable of text-to-phoneme synthesis or reciting complete words and phrases ( text-to-dictionary ), using a very popular Speech Synthesizer peripheral.

By 1979, many companies such as Cromemco, Processor Technology, IMSAI, Northstar, Southwest Technical Products Corporation, Ohio Scientific, Altos, Morrow Designs and others produced systems designed either for a resourceful end user or consulting firm to deliver business systems such as accounting, database management, and word processing to small businesses.

A single frame from Ed Emshwiller's video Sunstone ( 1979 ) was featured on the front cover of this book published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley.

In 1979, it was shown on WNET's Video / Film Review, and a single Sunstone frame was used on the front cover of Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley.

* Frederick S. Buchanan, " A Refuge in the Desert: Eskdale, Utah ", Sunstone, Jan – Feb 1979, pp. 33 – 36.

Being a pioneer of peace making in the region and driven from its belief that a peaceful Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the third Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty represented a fundamental shift in the politics of the region ; from a strategy of confrontation to one of peace as a strategic choice.

A gelatin plant was opened in Davenport and groundbreaking for a new, one-story Austin plant in 1979.

This led him to co-author a groundbreaking 1979 book ( with Steffen Zeuthen ) on this opening and similar structures ( ZOOM 001 — Zero Hour for Operative Opening Models ).

The series ' groundbreaking format, in which Clark travelled around the world to illustrate his thesis, became a template for later programmes such as Alistair Cooke's America ( 1972 ), Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man ( 1973 ), Life on Earth ( 1979 ) and sequels by David Attenborough, and Robert Hughes ' series on modern art The Shock of the New ( 1980 ).

Planning for a light rail system on Portland's west side started in 1979, with a groundbreaking coming in 1993 on the Westside MAX project.

Initial planning for a light rail line on Portland's west side began in 1979, with groundbreaking on the Westside MAX project coming in 1993.

Planning for the light rail system on Portland's west side began in 1979, with groundbreaking coming in 1993 on the Westside MAX project.

He produced Pylon's groundbreaking first single, Cool / Dub, which was released on Athens ' Caution Records label in 1979.

Star Fire, released 1979, is considered to be a groundbreaking shoot ' em up arcade game by Exidy that brought a number of new innovations to the market ; including being of the first to use a sit-down cockpit.

This proved to be a breakthrough role and allowed MacCorkindale to move to the United States, where he appeared in a variety of films and TV series including Quatermass ( 1979 ), The Riddle of the Sands ( 1979 ), The Sword and the Sorcerer ( 1982 ) and Jaws 3-D ( 1983 ).

Photographer and multimedia artist Ginny Lloyd started her Gina Lotta Post series in 1979 and by 1982 had produced some of the first computer-generated imagery used in artists stamps.

ILM began creating computer-generated imagery when they hired Edwin Catmull from NYIT in 1979.

Computerised graphics have been popular since BBC Two introduced the world's first computer-generated television identification in the summer of 1979.

The computer-generated imagery ( CGI ) for Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien were created at the Atlas Computer Laboratory which is now part of RAL.

* Tod Machover -- " Four Songs " ( 1973 ); " Guitar Concerto " ( 1978 ); " Deplacements " ( 1979 ) for guitar and computer-generated tape ; " Bug-Mudra " ( 1989 – 90 ) for 2 guitars, percussion and live computer electronics ;

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.

Category: 1979 video games

The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979.

* 1979 – Jens Bergensten, Swedish video game designer

Released on video in 1979.

* Rock band Toto's 1979 single release " 99 " is a song whose content is inspired by THX-1138s society, where people are given numbers instead of names, as well as having a music video featuring the band in an all-white room dressed in white, a set piece designed around the film.

* The Atari home computer video game Star Raiders, first released in 1979, responds to unknown keyboard commands with the status message " WHAT ' S WRONG?

The format of the 1981 episodes as aired on CJOH was similar to that of the inaugural 1979 season, with the differences being that each show featured skits revolving around a certain topic ( something that carried over from Whatever Turns You On ) and that the disco dancers were replaced by video game competitions.

* Mi-Sex — Computer Games: 1979 pop music video.

Dinner with Henry Miller ( 1979 ), a 30-minute video

Licensing rights were also granted to Mattel Electronics for two educational based video games for the Intellivision console in 1979.

He achieved fame with roles in the films Badlands ( 1973 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), and made notable appearances in Wall Street ( 1987 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), The Amazing Spider-Man ( 2012 ), and the Mass Effect video game trilogy.

Arcades catering to video games began to gain momentum in the late 1970s with games such as Space Invaders ( 1978 ) and Galaxian ( 1979 ) and became widespread in 1980 with Pac-Man, Centipede and others.

After relocating to the UK in the mid-1970s, Mulcahy made successful music videos for several noted British pop acts — his early UK credits included XTC's " Making Plans For Nigel " ( 1979 ) and his landmark video for The Buggles ' " Video Killed The Radio Star " ( 1979 ) which became the first music video played on MTV in 1981.

Video Concert Hall, created by Jerry Crowe and Charles Henderson, launched on November 1, 1979, was the first nationwide video music programming on American television, predating MTV by almost three years.

This was documented by Analy High School students in a 1979 video, Our Train Down Main: a History of the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad.

The Nascom 1 and 2 were single-board computer kits issued in 1977 and 1979, respectively, based on the Zilog Z80 and including a keyboard and video interface, a serial port that could be used to store data on a tape cassette using the Kansas City standard, and two 8-bit parallel ports.

In 1979, JVC demonstrated a prototype of its video high density ( VHD ) disc system.

Zimmer can be seen briefly in The Buggles ' music video for the 1979 song " Video Killed the Radio Star ".