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
beautiful being-beautiful awful
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.
tests doe answers
How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.
looks analyzing tools
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
library wheels librarian
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
real fall inspiration
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
science years mathematics
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.
clever dirty thinking
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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.
views way problem
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem
program very-good objects
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good
real winning trouble
It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
littles garbage language
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
ideas helping clue
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.
framework general library novel standard
The most novel and interesting part of the standard library is the general and extensible framework for containers and algorithms.