Bjarne Stroustrup spoke at this summer's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals held in St. Petersburg, Russia. While there, he also gave this 8-minute interview in the context of balancing efficient code with the out-of-the-box problem solving required by ICPC problem challenges.

2013 ICPC Bjarne Stroustrup

C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrup discusses the relationship of programming languages and competition and the benefit of participating in events such as the ACM-ICPC.