Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist who created C++ and wrote The C++ Programming Language. His work shaped a language combining low-level control with abstraction.

Simula: Simula is a programming language developed in Norway that introduced influential object-oriented programming concepts. Its classes and simulation-oriented design influenced Stroustrup’s early language experiments.
C++: C++ is a general-purpose programming language supporting procedural, object-oriented, and generic programming. It is Stroustrup’s best-known creation and the main vehicle for his design principles.
The C++ Programming Language: The C++ Programming Language is Bjarne Stroustrup’s textbook and reference work on C++. Its successive editions documented the language as it developed.
Programming language design: Programming language design is the creation of languages and rules for expressing computations. Stroustrup’s career is a sustained case study in balancing language features and implementation costs.
Dennis Ritchie: Dennis Ritchie was an American computer scientist who created the C programming language and co-developed Unix. C supplied the foundation Stroustrup extended into C++.
C (programming language): C is a general-purpose programming language known for close access to machine operations and a small core. Stroustrup designed C++ to build on C while adding higher-level programming facilities.
ISO C++: ISO C++ is the standardized specification of the C++ programming language. Stroustrup’s work helped guide C++ from a research project to an international standard.
Zero-overhead principle: The zero-overhead principle holds that language features should not impose costs when unused. Stroustrup has used it to explain C++’s emphasis on efficient abstractions.
Alexander Stepanov: Alexander Stepanov is a computer scientist known for developing the generic programming ideas behind the C++ Standard Template Library. His work helped make generic programming central to modern C++.
Object-oriented programming: Object-oriented programming organizes software around objects that combine state with operations. Stroustrup incorporated classes and related ideas while preserving C’s systems-programming strengths.

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Kristen NygaardRelated: His language carried Simula-derived object-oriented ideas into C++.