“Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.”
Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup
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Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup is a renowned computer scientist, known as the creator of the C++ programming language. He invented C++ in 1979, a widely-used programming language that has had a profound impact on software engineering. Born on December 30, 1950, Stroustrup's career has been dedicated to the design and development of programming languages and various fields of computer science. more
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