Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrupis a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University, and works at Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in New York...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 December 1950
CountryDenmark
simple important use
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
unique practice skills
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
design forget programming
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
views way problem
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem
language should ifs
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
running long trying
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
independent java platforms
Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform
believe simple people
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
beautiful being-beautiful awful
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.
effort java may
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
doe program tested
A program that has not been tested does not work.
program very-good objects
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good
support cad firsts
First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard
simple thinking misunderstood
If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.