Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup

Interviewed by Paul McJones, on February 5, 2015 in New York, New York, Computer History Museum Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a computer scientist who designed and evolved the C++ programming language, from an individual research project in the late 1970s, continuing to the present day as the internationallystandardized language that is ubiquitous in performancecritical systems and applications. The interview covers his youth, his education at the Aarhus University and the Un br, br,