) is a Danish computer scientist
, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++
programming language. He is currently Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University
.
Stroustrup began developing C++ in 1979 (then called "C
with Classes"), and, in his own words, "invented C++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation...
Proof by analogy is fraud.
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
A program that has not been tested does not work.
"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.
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.