Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Aug 2007 17:57 UTC
General Development "A good programming language is far more than a simple collection of features. My ideal is to provide a set of facilities that smoothly work together to support design and programming styles of a generality beyond my imagination. Here, I briefly outline rules of thumb (guidelines, principles) that are being applied in the design of C++0x. Then, I present the state of the standards process (we are aiming for C++09) and give examples of a few of the proposals such as concepts, generalized initialization, being considered in the ISO C++ standards committee. Since there are far more proposals than could be presented in an hour, I'll take questions." Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup is the original designer and implementer of the C++ Programming Language.
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C: Esperanto
by Almafeta on Mon 13th Aug 2007 18:02 UTC
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2007-02-22

C and its children are the Esperanto of programming languages.

Just good enough to be used, just bad enough to inspire countless revisions, and even with vastly superior successors it'll probably never die just due to the inertia of having been there first.

Does anyone have a link to a transcript?