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Lynn McGuire

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Oct 19, 2015, 7:46:11 PM10/19/15
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"Bjarne Stroustrup on the 30th anniversary of Cfront (the first C++ compiler)"
http://cpp-lang.io/30-years-of-cpp-bjarne-stroustrup/

What a long strange trip it has been?

Lynn

Jorgen Grahn

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Oct 20, 2015, 1:06:06 PM10/20/15
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On Mon, 2015-10-19, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Bjarne Stroustrup on the 30th anniversary of Cfront (the first C++ compiler)"
> http://cpp-lang.io/30-years-of-cpp-bjarne-stroustrup/

It was an interesting read, but my favorite quote is:

"I don't remember. In fact, I don't remember all that much
from the 1980s."

Also the part about how "people were over-excited about the use of
class hierarchies". I used to think Stroustrup was one of them ...

/Jorgen

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Christopher Pisz

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Oct 20, 2015, 4:58:15 PM10/20/15
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On 10/20/2015 12:05 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-19, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "Bjarne Stroustrup on the 30th anniversary of Cfront (the first C++ compiler)"
>> http://cpp-lang.io/30-years-of-cpp-bjarne-stroustrup/
>
> It was an interesting read, but my favorite quote is:
>
> "I don't remember. In fact, I don't remember all that much
> from the 1980s."

Mad Dog 20/20, Hairbands, Tight Rolled Pants, and Neon Green or Orange




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Jorgen Grahn

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Oct 24, 2015, 1:40:05 AM10/24/15
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On Tue, 2015-10-20, Christopher Pisz wrote:
> On 10/20/2015 12:05 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>> On Mon, 2015-10-19, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> "Bjarne Stroustrup on the 30th anniversary of Cfront (the first C++ compiler)"
>>> http://cpp-lang.io/30-years-of-cpp-bjarne-stroustrup/
>>
>> It was an interesting read, but my favorite quote is:
>>
>> "I don't remember. In fact, I don't remember all that much
>> from the 1980s."
>
> Mad Dog 20/20, Hairbands, Tight Rolled Pants, and Neon Green or Orange

Oh, the 1980s weren't /that/ bad!

The only vaguely C++-related thing I remember from the 1980s is a
classmate (Johan) who played with Turbo C a bit in the school computer
room, in 1988. I took one look and was intimidated by all those curly
brackets -- I had only used ABC-BASIC and very little Turbo Pascal at
the time.

I can't remember hearing about C++ until around 1991. Then I didn't
use it myself until 1997 or 1998. Then it took a few more years until
a coworker showed me how I /really/ should use it ...
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