Oct. 14, 1985: C++ Adds to Programming | This Day In Tech | Wired.com - 0 views
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After publishing The C++ Programming Language, Stroustrup continued to stay active in the C++ community, working on the language’s design, writing compilers and helping to make the language an ISO standard in 1998. He is currently a distinguished professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University.
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I consider the idea of one language, one programming tool, as the one and only best tool for everyone and for every problem infantile. If someone claims to have the perfect language he is either a fool or a salesman or both.
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When done well, software is invisible. There are several processors in my little camera, but I don’t think of my camera as a computer. There are dozens of computers in a modern car, but we still think of it as a car.
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After publishing The C++ Programming Language, Stroustrup continued to stay active in the C++ community, working on the language's design, writing compilers and helping to make the language an ISO standard in 1998. He is currently a distinguished professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University.