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
perfect design java
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either
java serious language
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
independent java platforms
Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform
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.
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
successful class use
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful
legacy alternatives code
Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
order class firsts
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.