Bjarne Stroustrup

This is the story of C++, one of the world’s most widely-used and consequential programming languages. C++ divides opinion, resists replacement, and has outlasted almost everything built to supersede it. C++ The Documentary traces the full arc, from its origins in the corridors of Bell Labs to the global community that shapes it today. Featuring the people who built it, extended it, argued over it, and refused to let it die. Bjarne Stroustrup: Bell Labs, Designer and original implementer of C++ Alexander Stepanov: Designer of the Standard Template Library Anders Hejlsberg: Creator of C#, TypeScript, and Turbo Pascal Andrei Alexandrescu: Principal Research Scientist, Nvidia & C++ Author Andrew Koenig: Bell Labs, Founding member of the C++ Standards Committee, Researcher, C++ Author & Educator Barbara Moo: Bell Labs, Manager C++ Development Team & C++ Author Brian Kernighan: Bell Labs, Computer Scientist, Co-author of "The C Programming Language" Chris Lattner: Creator of Mojo, LLVM, Clang & Swift Danilo Piparo: Particle Physicist, CERN, ROOT Framework Project Lead Eric Lubin: Software Developer - Lead, Hudson River Trading Gabriel Dos Reis: Software Engineer and Architect, Microsoft; C++ tools builder; Mathematician Herb Sutter: Technical Fellow, Citadel Securities; Chair, Standard C++ Foundation; Emeritus Chair, ISO C++ Committee John Romero: Video Game Developer, Co-Creator of Doom and Quake, Co-Founder id Software Nina Ranns: Vice-Convener of the ISO C++ Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:50 Invention at AT&T Bell Labs 07:30 C with Classes 09:37 Early adoption of C with Classes 10:53 From C with Classes to C++ (and CFront) 12:32 Why is it called C++? 13:24 AT&T starts selling software / Another team tries to take over C++ 16:08 Early development of C++ at AT&T Bell Labs 19:10 “It was a buggy product” / Release 2.0.0 21:55 C++ spreading beyond AT&T 24:50 Too many versions of C++ 26:03 Need for standardization 29:38 The STL by Alexander Stepanov 37:19 The first standard: C++98 39:21 C++ at CERN in the 90s 40:34 C++ spreading to games and trading 43:00 C++ winter of the early 2000s 45:34 Programming language wars (C#) 49:25 There’s a need for an efficient programming language again 52:29 Modern C++ (C++11) 56:29 Is the standards committee making C++ too complicated? 1:00:45 C++ is everwhere 01:05:00 The future and challenges for C++ 01:08:31 Bjarne’s impact ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Hudson River Trading for making this documentary possible ➡️➡️ https://hudsonrivertrading.com/cppdoc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Railway, our channel sponsor, for supporting our work ➡️ https://railway.com/?referralCode=cultrepo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directed by: Ida Bechtle Produced by: Emma Tracey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us: X: https://www.x.com/CultRepo Bluesky: https://www.cultrepo.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cult.repo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cult-repo