Bjarne Stroustrup: “I did it for you all” (1998)

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all

by casidiablo • 12 years ago

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jmount• 12 years ago

The "interview" is an old fake/slander, but I still love it.

goldfeld• 12 years ago

When I was around 13 I learned some Visual Basic and started toying around with boxes bouncing around screens. At some point I decided I should better hop on to Visual C++, don't remember what I read to convince me in that direction. I tried really hard to grasp it, the Object Orientation and all, but whether I wasn't determined enough or my brain still wasn't quite up to the complexity I don't know--it ended up turning me away from programming for around 5 years until I came back to tame OO through Visual C#. Moving to JavaScript thereafter was so freeing (and Unix), and then I was fast on my track to functional programming in JS and eventually lisp (through Clojure.) I could believe this interview's every word was true, though I'm not sure what could have been instead of C++ for fast native applications (Scheme?)

SAI_Peregrinus• 12 years ago

It's more parody than slander. The fakery is obvious, and clearly done with humorous intent. Also, since it's published, if it were defamation it would be libel, since slander is only for fleeting statements (most often verbal).

Bjarne Stroustrup: “I did it for you all” (1998)

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