An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup

DevTool writes "Bjarne Stroustrup talks about the imminent C++0x standard and the forthcoming features it brings, the difficulties of standardizing programming languages in general, the calculated risks that the standards committee can afford to take with new features, and even his own New Year's resolutions."

Comments

Too little and too much, way too late

[Rogerborg]

There's still a market for low level C programmers, and for Java, C#, Perl, Python, VB, and just about everything else, but who uses C++ these days? Games developers, a few corporate app maintainers and... uh... hang on...

Note carefully: I love C++, with all its fragmentation, bloat, gotchas and non-standard-standard-libraries, but really, it's a niche language now, kept alive by beardy wierdies and a few caffeine soaked kids who'll burn out and end up writing SQL for banks in a couple of years. Interesting, but hardly news that matters.