Bill Venners Interviews Bjarne Stroustrup

Brian Johnson MS

25 Feb 2004 10:18 PM

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Bill Venners has published a 4 part interview with Bjarne Stroustrup on artima.com. Bill breaks the interview out into the following topics:

Part I: The C++ Style Sweet Spot
Part II: Modern C++ Style
Part III: Abstraction and Efficiency
Part IV: Elegance and Other Design Ideals

There's a great set of C++ resources listed at the end of each interview segment. You should also be sure to check out the artima.com Articles About C++ page for more C++ goodness.

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Comments

Stephane Rodriguez

25 Feb 2004 11:10 PM

thanks for the heads up.
Ferris Beuller

26 Feb 2004 12:24 PM

C++ is a joke its nothing but a pigs (and MC++ adds more pigs mess to it) mess of MACROS, DEFINES and crap.

C++ is becoming bloated with kludges and patches.
Ferris Beuller

26 Feb 2004 12:24 PM

Remove the preprocessor.
Ferris Beuller

26 Feb 2004 12:26 PM

Lack of properties on C++, you have to kludge them in using Templates or just a pigs mess of get_ and set_ methods.

MC++ adds even more junk.
Ferris Beuller

26 Feb 2004 12:26 PM

Templates. yeah , more pre processor junk, not proper types.
Ferris Beuller

26 Feb 2004 12:28 PM

Constructors, yeah we like the way you can set methods in ctors in C++, its Pig ugly.
Ferris Beuller

26 Feb 2004 12:33 PM

unnamed enums and structs, lovely all good for readability. Lets encourage it more. Pig Ugly.
Ianier Munoz

27 Feb 2004 12:10 AM

Nice. It's interesting to see how Bjarne has changed his point of view about OOP over the years.
Ferris Beuller

27 Feb 2004 1:34 AM

C++ in any form is too risky for business now.

C++ == Kludge++

They need to start again, oh wait, its called C#.
C++ Advocate

28 Feb 2004 4:06 AM

Whoever was the dumbass ranting about c++'s apparent shortcommings, get a clue.

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Bill Venners Interviews Bjarne Stroustrup

Bill Venners Interviews Bjarne Stroustrup