Bjarne Stroustrup

    • Born: December 30, 1950
    • Birthplace: Aarhus, Denmark
    • In 1990, his "Annotated C++ Reference Manual" received Dr. Dobb's "Jolt Cola" award for excellence in technical documentation
    • He was elected member of The National Academy of Engineering in 2004 "for the creation of the C++ programming language"
    • In 2005 he won the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
    • In his book "The Design and Evolution of C++", he claims that 19th century philosopher Kierkegaard was an influence upon his conception of the language
    • Name pronounced "B-yar-ne Strov-stroop"
  • Bjarne Stroustrup is a computer scientist known as the inventor of the [[C++]] programming language. Stroustrup is currently a Professor at Texas A&M University and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science.
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    "Naturally. I'm very happy with the way it allows me to write programs that are simultaneously elegant and efficient. I'm also quite proud of its widespread use. That said, I don't claim that C++ is perfect. There is a lot of really horrible C++ code out there, because many programmers haven't learned to use C++ well. I encourage people to look at my home pages, papers and books for ideas about how to improve their code. My impression is that most C++ code could have been much cleaner, maintainable and efficient than it is had the designers and programmers understood up-to-date C++ features and techniques. Standard C++ really does make possible programming techniques that were infeasible ten years ago. Unfortunately, many are constrained or feel constrained to use C++ as it stood ten years ago, or they simply use it as a better C." Bjarne Stroustrup via Linux Journal
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