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 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.