"I did it for you all" - Bjarne Stroustrup

[Cecelia Graham]

So I stumbled on this interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, basically saying that he made C++ to be incredibly inefficient so that it would take such a long time to make a program in C++ and as a result programmers would make a lot of money.

I don't know, this is old, maybe everyone knows about it, but I just found it now. I'm not a C++ programmer but from my perceptions of it, this interview seems to nail it right on the head.

Just wondering what you C++ programmers out there think about this? Accurate or no? It makes me kind of want to learn c++ and kind of not lol.

 

[Liana Gibson]

I'm not going to doubt it because I know of something very similar to this.

Not only will programmers make a lot of money, but because of how c++ is designed, a lot of the language is really only readable by the guy that created whatever code there is (though others can read it, it can take a long time). Therefore that guy will be needed if that code ever needs to be changed.

That's why programmers always keep there jobs.

Brilliant really.