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Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2015 Dahl-Nygaard Prize

Posted by timothy on from the took-a-while-to-get-the-spelling dept.

mikejuk writes Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, is the 2015 recipient of the Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize, considered the most prestigious prize in object-oriented computer science. Established in 2005 it honors the pioneering work on object-orientation of Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, who designed Simula, the original object-oriented language and are remembered as "colorful characters." To be eligible for the senior prize an individual must have made a "significant long-term contribution to the field of Object-Orientation," and this year it goes to Bjarne Stoustrup for the design, implementation and evolution of the C++ programming language. You can't argue with that.

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  1. Contribution? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Contribution to Object Orientation? That's like an award for hammer-based carpentry.

  2. Award? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought Dahl-Nygaard was an Indian soup.

  3. Re:Pronunciation by presidenteloco · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes. And it is "see" "ploose" "ploose" for those in the know.

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  4. Functional Awards? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where are the "Functional Science" awards? You gotta have Paradigm Envy, no?

    And how about the Procedural Awards, and the Goto Awards? I hear the Goto team racks up a lot of air-fare.

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