The US National Academy of Engineering has announced that Bjarne Stroustrup will receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering for his creation of C++ while at Bell Labs. The language C++, to put it mildly, is widely used. The prize will be formally awarded on February 20th in Washington, DC.
Here is Bjarne's home page and his Wikipedia page.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:09PM
Compared with C? Where to do anything you have to go through MacroHell? Where there are no namespaces (so function declarations are completely unscoped)? etc etc