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
according commercial consider context criteria design encourage languages people
I encourage people to consider the two languages according to their design criteria and not just in the context of commercial rivalries.
perfect design java
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either
design forget programming
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
code depend good source tool tools work
Tool vendors have made a good start, but have much work to do in tools that depend on compilers and other source code analyzers.
language support thinking variety ways
Consequently, a general-purpose programming language should support a variety of ways of thinking and a variety of programming styles.
both standard tool
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
answer basic code computers depend elaborate few interface large list numbers partial systems
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
perfect language salesman
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
library tools standards
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries
real impact trying
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call 'real money,' I'd be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
civilization fields degrees
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
thinking ideas two
Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.
errors bored solutions
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
support language programming
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining