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
able assuming forbidden
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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.
support language programming
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
perfect design java
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either
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
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.
real thinking expression
I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.
thinking google quality
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!
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.
learning successful firsts
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles