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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @09:48PM (1 child)
A good programmer always uses refined taste and extensive experience when writing code.
SADLY, he must interface with code written by LESSER PEOPLE who will use every possible feature in the language to its ridiculous utmost.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @05:57PM
This is not flamebait.
It's an ironic reply for why one can't realistically restrict oneself to a sane subset of a language with so many so many easily abused features. Those features are an inescapable part of the programming experience because if a feature exists, IT WILL BE USED BY SOMEONE. Perhaps A LOT. Maybe even by you before experience taught you it was a "problematic" language feature.