Bjarne Stroustrup: Journey to C++ from Fortran, Algol, Simula, and C
Lex Fridman
Bjarne Stroustrup recounts his early journey through programming languages, beginning with Algol 60 and Fortran before finding himself drawn to Pascal's simplicity and microcode for efficiency. His path led him to Simula in the late 1960s while he was a visiting professor at Aarhus University, where …