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1993: The ACM Grace Murray Hopper award for his early work laying the foundations for the C++ programming language. Based on those foundations and Dr. Stroustrup's continuing efforts, C++ has become one of the most influential programming languages in the history of computing. Fellowships Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. [3] He created the C programming language and the Unix operating system and B language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson. [3]
Stroustrup describes C++ as "a light-weight abstraction programming language [designed] for building and using efficient and elegant abstractions"; [15] and "offering both hardware access and abstraction is the basis of C++. Doing it efficiently is what distinguishes it from other languages." [68] C++ inherits most of C's syntax.
The development of new programming languages continues, and some new languages appears with focus on providing a replacement for current languages. These new languages try to provide the advantages of a known language like C++ (versatile and fast) while adding safety or reducing complexity.
Was the head of Bell Labs Large-scale Programming Research department, from its creation until late 2002 and created the C++ programming language. Brian Kernighan: Helped to create Unix, AWK, AMPL and authored along with Dennis Ritchie influential The C Programming Language book. Claire F. Gmachl
Christopher Strachey, co-designer of CPL (programming language), father of Denotational semantics; Bjarne Stroustrup, the 2015 AITO Dahl–Nygaard Prize for the design, implementation, and evolution of C++ and IEEE Computer Society 2018 Computer Pioneer Award; Gerald Jay Sussman, co-designer of Scheme
Thompson tested early versions of the C++ programming language for Bjarne Stroustrup by writing programs in it, but later refused to work in C++ due to frequent incompatibilities between versions. In a 2009 interview, Thompson expressed a negative view of C++, stating, "It does a lot of things half well and it's just a garbage heap of ideas ...
The C++ programming language (originally named "C with Classes") was devised by Bjarne Stroustrup as an approach to providing object-oriented functionality with a C-like syntax. [67] C++ adds greater typing strength, scoping, and other tools useful in object-oriented programming, and permits generic programming via templates.