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
library tools standards
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries
support language programming
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
errors bored solutions
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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.
civilization fields degrees
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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.
language wonderful code
More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.
perfect language salesman
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
details would-be needs
And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
able assuming forbidden
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.