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Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Lex Fridman Podcast #48

Lex Fridman

Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, recounts his journey from learning Algol 60 in university to discovering Simula and its pioneering concepts of inheritance and runtime polymorphism. He emphasizes that while object-oriented programming is a significant part of modern languages like Java or Pyth …

Bjarne Stroustrup: Learn More than One Programming Language

Lex Fridman

Bjarne Stroustrup emphasizes that professional programmers should be proficient in at least five different languages to avoid becoming a monolingual thinker who views their own cultural perspective as universal. He notes that while he knew approximately twenty-five languages during his work on C++, …