Title
Stroustrup, Bjarne oral history : 2015 fellow
Catalog Number
102740024
Type
Document
Description
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.
Date
2015-02-05
Contributor
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McJones, Paul, Interviewer
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Plutte, Jon, Videographer
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Stroustrup, Bjarne, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
New York, NY, USA
Extent
29 p.
Format
PDF
Copyright Holder
Computer History Museum
Category
Transcription
Subject
C with Classes; C++ (programming language); Zero-overhead principle; Templates; Concepts; Standard Template Library (STL); University of Cambridge; Bell Laboratories
Collection Title
Oral history collection
Credit
Computer History Museum
