Bjarne Stroustrup was born on 30 December 1950. He is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the invention and development of the C++ programming language. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University, and works at Morgan Stanley as a managing director in New York.
Source – Wikipedia.

Top 25 Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes:

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.
2. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

3. C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.

4. The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

5. The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

6. There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

7. Do not proceed with a mess; messes just grow with time.

8. It’s easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

9. A program that has not been tested does not work.

10. Proof by analogy is fraud.


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Bjarne and Silberschatz (Operating Systems) were big inspiration when men were still boys

This is one of the few people I look up to, him and Linus tovard.

Indeed the heart of computing is to acknowledge those before you and leave something for those after you, wonderful. Nigerian software developers should be looking at these kinds of threads instead of one's about money, crypto or landing a job

ArcheKit:
Indeed the heart of computing is to acknowledge those before you and leave something for those after you, wonderful. Nigerian software developers should be looking at these kinds of threads instead of one's about money, crypto or landing a job

They should look at these kind of threads plus the one's you mentioned

ArcheKit:
Indeed the heart of computing is to acknowledge those before you and leave something for those after you, wonderful. Nigerian software developers should be looking at these kinds of threads instead of one's about money, crypto or landing a job

The list of those authors whose books positively influenced me are endless


There was the really old Computer Science by C.S French

Andrew Tannenbaum (Computer Networks)

Elmasri Navathe (Database which I totally hated as I never understood the concepts of Normalisation up to Backus-Naur Form)

Deitel and Deitel

airsaylongcome:


The list of those authors whose books positively influenced me are endless


There was the really old Computer Science by C.S French

Andrew Tannenbaum (Computer Networks)

Elmasri Navathe (Database which I totally hated as I never understood the concepts of Normalisation up to Backus-Naur Form)

Deitel and Deitel

Nice ones are you a cs major by chance?

ArcheKit:

Nice ones are you a cs major by chance?

I studied CS as first degree