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Bjarne Stroustrup on the Problems With Programming

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the blowing-your-whole-leg-off dept.

Hobart writes "MIT's Technology Review has a Q&A with C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrup. Highlights include Bjarne's answers on the trade-offs involved in the design of C++, and how they apply today, and his thoughts on the solution to the problems. From the interview: 'Software developers have become adept at the difficult art of building reasonably reliable systems out of unreliable parts. The snag is that often we do not know exactly how we did it.'"

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  1. Bjarne Stroustrup by KonoWatakushi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    is the last person I want to hear comments from about programming languages.

    From the article: "Technology Review: Why is most software so bad?"

    Come on Bjarne, be honest. It is at least in part, because most software is written in that awful language you foisted on the world. I think the state of programming today would be vastly more advanced if C++ had given way to Objective C.