Oral History of Bjarne Stroustrup

About the interview:

In a substantial interview with Paul McJones, Bjarne Stroustrup discusses his youth, his education at the Aarhus University and the University of Cambridge, and his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Texas A&M University, and Morgan Stanley. Also covered are his early experience with a variety of programming languages including Simula and BCPL. Finally, the interview focuses on his work on C++ and its predecessor C with Classes, including his goal of combining good abstraction mechanisms with direct access to the hardware. Specific language features discussed include value semantics, templates, concepts, the Standard Template Library, and highlights of the C++11 and C++14 standards.