MIT Technology Review: An Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup

[Bruno Medeiros]

clayasaurus wrote:
> Pragma wrote:
>> Something I ran into that the group might enjoy:
>>
>> From: http://www.techreview.com/InfoTech/17831/
>>
>> "Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the C++ programming language, 
>> defends his legacy and examines what's wrong with most software code."
>>
>> As always, Slashdot has some colorful coverage on this:
>>
>> http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/12/05/0045234.shtml
>>
>> "MIT's Technology Review has a Q&A with C++ inventor Bjarne 
>> Stroustrup. Highlights include Bjarne's answers on the trade-offs 
>> involved in the design of C++, and how they apply today, and his 
>> thoughts on the solution to the problems. From the interview: 
>> 'Software developers have become adept at the difficult art of 
>> building reasonably reliable systems out of unreliable parts. The snag 
>> is that often we do not know exactly how we did it.'"
>>
> 
> Here is the follow up interview
> 
> http://www.techreview.com/InfoTech/17868/page1/
> 
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/09/220218
> 

Reading that, it has just sprung in my mind that Bjarne's initials spell 
BS... ;P

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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