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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. Re:Poor Alan Kay by Cassini2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    C++. All of programming in one language - except simplicity.

    "When programming in C++, you have to pick the subset of the language that you want to use. Otherwise your code will be unreadable."

  2. Re:Ppl who don't know C++ slamming C++ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    As Stroustrup himself has explained several times, C++ is a multi-paradigm language. You can use it to do C-style system programming (indeed, using the exact same library and system calls without the overhead of a translation layer), object-oriented programming, or generic programming, and mix and match within the same app, library or even the same class definition. And there's no bytecode virtual machine overhead.

    So to say that it's not a pure OO language, well no, it wasn't designed that way.

  3. Who knew? by Marginal+Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who knew that there was an annual award for such a specialized field? It's surprising that Stroustrup hasn't gotten this award already. Based on the Wikipedia entry about this prize, it looks like in 2013 and 2014 they couldn't think of anyone else who created a popular object-oriented language. Maybe somebody should tell 'em about Guido Van Rossum and James Gosling. And what about the STL guy who was just interviewed here? Not to mention the Objective-C guy, whoever he is. (I'm sure I've left many other deserving candidates out - sorry about that.)