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Bjarne Stroustrup - The Essence of C++

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  • Presented by Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++
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Bjarne Stroustrup discusses the core philosophy, design principles, and evolution of the C++ programming language.

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator and developer of C++, delivers his talk entitled, The Essence of C++. Stroustrup has held distinguished posts at Texas A&M University and spent significant time in the Computer Science Departments of Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton. C++ is the one of the world's most widely used technology languages and it has influenced newer languages such as C# and Java as well as older languages. Find more information on Bjarne Stroustrup and this lecture: ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/news-events/lecture… Recorded on 28 April 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's George Square Lecture Theatre.

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That's what I said about Ruby.. which was philosophically a cleaner "Perl 7.0." (Python was "supposed" to be the "anti-Perl," because of the only-One-True-Way philosophy. I'm not that religious because they're tools 🛠 in the toolbox 🧰.) Yes, sigh. There's a lot of Perl out there.. it's like COBOL or Fortran to most people nowadays. I'm sure there's good money in its maintenance. $D Btw I recommend watching Bjarne Stroustrup's 2014 talk at the University of Edinburg that goes into the history before C++ here on YT.
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