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Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded Dahl-Nygaard Prize for C++ Language

Bjarne Stroustrup has been awarded the 2015 Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize by AITO, the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets[1]  for the design, implementation and evolution of the C++ programming language. This prize is considered the most prestigious in object-oriented computer science.