Bjarne Stroustrup , né le 30 décembre 1950 à Aarhus, est un informaticien, écrivain et professeur de sciences informatiques danois. Il est connu pour être l'auteur du langage de programmation C++, l'un des plus utilisés dans le monde. Wikipedia
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that, <br class="br">Source: The C++ Programming Language
“C++ protects against accident, not against fraud.”
Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language
The C++ Programming Language
[Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages, https://books.google.com/books?id=yB1WwURwBUQC&pg=PA14, 21 March 2009, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 978-0-596-55550-4, 14]
The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup), MIT Technology Review, November 28, 2006, Jason Pontin, 2007-11-15 http://technologyreview.com/Infotech/17831/page3/,
“Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman.”
in C++ 0x - An Overview at University of Waterloo Computer Science Club http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/C++0x%20-%20An%20Overview.html
"Bjarne Stroustrup - The Essence of C++" talk on 28 April 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's George Square Lecture Theatre.
“If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.”
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language
[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 713]
“A program that has not been tested does not work.”
Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language
[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 712]
“Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.”
Bjarne Stroustrup livre The Design and Evolution of C++
[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The Design and Evolution of C++, 207]. A later clarification adds, "And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#." Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
“Far too often, "software engineering" is neither engineering nor about software.”
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2011-04-11 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
“People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.”
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
“Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.”
Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language
[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 693]
“"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.”
Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: What is "legacy code"?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#legacy,
The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup), MIT Technology Review, November 28, 2006, Jason Pontin, 2007-11-15 http://technologyreview.com/Infotech/17831/page3/,
Bjarne Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language (Third Edition and Special Edition) Notes to the Reader page 9, 2012-04-28, http://web.archive.org/web/20091128074415/http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_notes.pdf#page=7, 2009-11-28 http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_notes.pdf#page=7,
On his homepage http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that, Bjarne Stroustrup states that he did say the above sentence, but also adds "I very much doubt that the sentiment is original." Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,
C QA Community Event with Bjarne Stroustrup, 2014-08-27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqQudbtuqo,
Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language
[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 692]
Bjarne Stroustrup livre The C++ Programming Language
[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 467]
Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, 2011-02-07 http://www.eptacom.net/pubblicazioni/pub_eng/stroustr.html,
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
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