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Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 13, 2003 @03:30AM from the talking-with-the-giants dept.

koval writes "artima.com has published an initial portion of interview with Bjarne Stroustrup. The scope of first part is mostly about improving the style of C++ programming and getting maximum from a language."

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Re:Probably fake but . . . by AKnightCowboy · 2003-10-13 03:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of this little scheme, which would redress the balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers?
C++ does seem to be horribly convuluted. Maybe I just have a horrible professor teaching it, but the things that are being demonstrated could've been done just as easily (if not better) using standard C. Object-oriented programming seems to be vastly overrated. Give me C or Perl anyday.