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C++ Inventor Changing Jobs

Posted by chrisd on from the stl-at-a-and-m dept.

JewFish writes "Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and implementer of the C++ programming language is switching jobs. He has accepted the COE Endowed Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. The fulfillment of this fulltime position was announced today by the head of the computer science department. Now that Dr. Stroustrup will be on faculty I sure hope they start offering a C++ course or two."

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  1. Wow! by glitchvern · · Score: 4, Informative

    I go to Texas A&M. Checking my cs e-mail account I find this:

    Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:30:50 -0500 (CDT)
    From: Jennifer Welch
    To: faculty@cs.tamu.edu, csgrads@cs.tamu.edu, csunder@cs.tamu.edu,
    watson@tamu.edu, rgd@tamu.edu, richard-ewing@tamu.edu
    Subject: Stroustrup accepts COE Endowed Chair in computer science
    Resent-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:32:38 -0500 (CDT)
    Resent-From: csunder@cs.tamu.edu

    Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the C++ language, has accepted
    our offer to fill the endowed chair in computer science!

    -- Jennifer

    So yeah, it looks like he's coming here. This is really amazing because our cs department sucks so much. Until very recently the cs unix servers would not forward X11 connections, /etc/shells was not readable, and ssh keys couldn't be used as a login method. It looks like ypcat passwd still gives me the password file (been meaning to go down there and tell them about that) and neither ypchsh nor chsh is installed so I still can't change my shell. That said they have been improving a lot lately and having talked to an associate head for the department recently they appear to be aware of some of the problems with the curriculum and are going to fix them. Too late for me though. In the four years I've been here I feel like I have learned almost nothing (well from the cs department that is).