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Bjarne Stroustrup to Receive the 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering

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

canopic jug writes:

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 20^th in Washington, DC.

Here is Bjarne's home page and his Wikipedia page.

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• Re:C++ is old (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 05 2018, @03:09AM

  by c0lo (156) on Friday January 05 2018, @03:09AM (#618184) Journal

  I have usually found the syntax for templates to make things which are incomprehensible.

  Same with pure maths - template, especially template metaprogramming, is very close to how a mathematician mind works (given some properties and behaviour, then heaps of theorems hold true, it doesn't matter if the objects are matrices or sets of prime numbers or families of functions)

  And yet, even if you don;t get it, you can't - in good faith - blame maths even if/when their applications may have had a contribution [blogspot.com.au] to a decade long crisis [wired.com] (google for causes of 2008 crisis PhD Gaussian copula David Li [google.com], usually in times closer to 2008 - the linked search is set to 2008-2014)

  This seems in conflict with C++ having no bearing on messing up?

  Since you haven't showed that C++ is necessary to cause a mess, how can you claim it has a bearing in all that's wrong with computers?

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