Stroustrup, Bjarne oral history : 2015 fellow
Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a computer scientist who designed and evolved the C++ programming language, from an individual research project in the late 1970s, continuing to the present day as the internationally-standardized language that is ubiquitous in performance-critical systems and applications. The interview covers his youth, his education at the Aarhus University and the University of Cambridge, and his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Texas A&M University, and Morgan Stanley. It also covers his early experience with a variety of programming languages including Simula and BCPL. Finally, it focuses on his work on C++ and its predecessor C with Classes, including his goal of combining good abstraction mechanisms with direct access to the hardware. Specific language features discussed include value semantics, templates, concepts, the Standard Template Library, and highlights of the C++11 and C++14 standards.
Item Details
- Date
- 2015-02-05 (Made)
- Type
- Moving Image
- Catalogue number
- 102740023
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Plutte, Jon (Videographer)
Paul McJones (Interviewer)
Bjarne Stroustrup (Interviewee) - Category
- Oral History
- Format
- MOV
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 02:01:00
- Place of publication
- USA/NY/New York
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X7399.2015
- Subject
- Bell Laboratories, University of Cambridge
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection