Bjarne Stroustrup Alive
Created C++ at Bell Labs — Simula's classes grafted onto C's machine model — and has steered it since 1979.
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Created C++ — 'C with Classes' (1979) growing into the most-used systems language — guided by the zero-overhead principle: what you don't use costs nothing.\n\nWrote 'The Design and Evolution of C++' (1994), the honest account of how a language grows by accretion.