Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist best known for creating the C++ programming language. He led research at Bell Labs, later taught at Texas A&M University, and has been a full professor at Columbia University since 2022; his work has been foundational to object-oriented and generic programming in mainstream industrial software. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Bjarne Stroustrup ( ; Danish: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈstʁʌwˀstʁɔp]; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language.
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