Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
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Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist who created C++, one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. His work matters because C++ became fundamental to software development across many industries, from operating systems and games to financial systems and embedded devices.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30 December 1950
- Works
- 25
Top works
- C++
- C++ Linguaggio, Libreria Standard
- Eine Tour durch C++
- Die C++-Programmiersprache
- C++ cheng xu she ji yu yan
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Bjarne Stroustrup (/ˈbjɑːrnə ˈstrɒvstrʊp/ ; Danish: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈstʁʌwˀstʁɔp]; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia.
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