No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup
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Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish-born computer scientist known for creating the C++ programming language. He worked at Bell Labs, AT&T, and Texas A&M University, and is recognized for his significant contributions to the field of computer science through the development of C++, which has become one of the most widely used programming languages in the world.
b. 1950
No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
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