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posted by martyb on Thursday January 04 2018, @03:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the C++ dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:55PM (#618043)

    He did have an impact. That he did.

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