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 internationally-standardized language that is ubiquitous in performance-critical systems and applications. The interview covers his youth, his education at the Aarhus University and the Un