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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @09:40PM
There have always been shitty programmers.
It's just that Java is so much safer than the previous languages while still being fairly powerful that it allowed the shitty programmers to accomplish more, allowing shittier programmers to work on more important systems than before... uh, maybe I'm half-way to agreeing with you.