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Bjarne Stroustrup

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Bjarne Stroustrup

b. 1950

Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)

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Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia.

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1950
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Danish computer scientist, created the C++ programming language

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