Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of the C++ programming language and a former researcher at Bell Labs. We talked about what Bell Labs was like, programming language design, and interesting anecdotes from his experience.
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โข YouTube: https://youtu.be/U46fJ2bJ-co
โข Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835
โข Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/creator-of-c-bell-labs-negative-overhead
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0:00 - Intro
0:50 - The origin of C++
8:46 - What Bell Labs was like
17:24 - Dennis Ritchie
24:00 - When to build a programming language
31:59 - Bootstrapping a language
33:58 - C++ is not object-oriented
37:32 - Discussing type systems
46:20 - Memory safety
49:26 - Standards committee anecdotes
1:09:40 - Adding automatic garbage collection to C++
1:18:25 - Template instantiation is Turing complete
1:21:57 - Abstraction and performance
1:28:51 - AI writing code
1:35:54 - His motivation
1:39:18 - Famous quotes
1:46:48 - Reflecting on building C++
1:49:12 - Top C++ book recommendation
1:50:59 - Advice for his younger self
1:58:06 - Outro
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โข Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup
โข Personal Website: https://www.stroustrup.com/
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โข "A History of C++": https://www.stroustrup.com/hopl2.pdf
โข "Evolving a language in and for the real world": https://www.stroustrup.com/hopl-almost-final.pdf
โข "Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World": https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p2184r0.pdf
โข The lecture where he mentioned he lost half his hair: https://youtu.be/69edOm889V4?si=IAZxYNwlUALodEV7&t=474
โข Quotes I pulled: https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html
