Interviews with Bjarne Stroustrup

Modified February 4, 2010

Translations into Chinese of almost all of the interviews below.

• Interview with Danny Kalev foro DevX: On Concepts and the Future of C++ August 2009.
• Short interview with app2us, mostly on education. May 2009.
• Bjarne Stroustrup: C++. Chapter in Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden: "Masterminds of Programming -- conversations with the creators of major programming languages". O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0-596-51517-1. March 2009.

• A "geek of the week" interview on quality of software, education, and C++ for Simple-talk by Richard Morris. December 2008.
• An interview by James Mguire "On educating software developers" for Datamation. December 2008. slashdotted.
• A series of short interviews for a codezine by Takashi Toyota. Fall 2008.
• An interview by Danny Kalev The State of the Language for DevX.com. August 2008. slashdotted.
• An interview by Naomi Hamilton The A-Z of programming languages: C++ for Computerworld Australia. June 2008. Re-posted on Computerworld.com and slashdotted.
• An interview On C++0x, my forthcoming book, etc. by Danny Kalev for InformIt. April 2008.
• An interview On the evolution of languages for MSDN Magazine by Howard Dierking. Vol 23, No 5. April 2008.
• An interview on C++0x, the education of programmers, and more for Dr. Dobb's Magazine by James Buchanan. February 2008.
• An interview for a Japanese book by Takashi Toyota. February 2008.
• An interview by crazyengineers January 2008.

• An interview by TopLanguage Group for CSDN (The Chinesversion of CSDN "Programmer" Magazine"). December 2007.
• An interview and afollow up by Roberto Zicari for ODBMS.org. November 2007.

• An interview for MIT Technical Review by Jason Pontin: Trouble with programming and More trouble with programming. This is a nicely edited version of my somewhat longer and more detailed original text. This mild mannered interview caused flamewars on slashdot and artima (and more on artima). December 2006.
• A Frontier Visionary Interview C++: past, present, and future. September 2006.
• A short interview with Texas A&M Engineer Research Magazine. September 2006.
• A short interview on //: Bjarne Stroustrup on teaching C++. August 2006.
• An interview by a blogger of a group of "Great programmers" including, Linus Torvalds, Guido Van Rossum, and James Gosling. Summer 2006.
• An interview and discussion with a group of mostly high-school students. July 2006.

• Article by Pierre Vandeginste based on interview for INRIA: Bjarne Stroustrup: le père de C++, un langage qui a de la classe. June 2004 (in French)
• Elegance and other design ideals (Part 4: Aspects of software design, the importance of libraries, protecting programmers from themselves, the dangers of premature abstraction, and the essence of elegance). Interview by Bill Venners for Artima.com. February 2004.
• Abstraction and Efficiency (Part 3: Raising the level of abstraction, "programming is understanding", and the difference between premature and prudent optimization). Interview by Bill Venners for Artima.com. February 2004.

• Modern C++ Style (Part 2: Multiple inheritance, Abstract classes, multi-paradigm programming, and "resource acquisition is initialization"). Interview by Bill Venners for Artima.com. November 2003.
• The C++ Style Sweet Spot (Part 1: C-style, object orientation, invariants, simple interfaces). Interview by Bill Venners for Artima.com. September 2003.
• Interview by Aleksey V. Dolya for the Linux Journal. Posted August 28, 2003. This interview was originally done for a Russian magazine, Januaray 10, 2002. Here is the Russian version.

• Interview by Kyle Schurman for CPU Magazine. August 2002. Vol.2, Issue 8. (printable version).
• Interview by Rogue Wave. April 2002.
• Interview by Pierre Tran from the French e-magazine "Developpeur Reference". March 2002. English version.

• Interview by the Chinese e-magazine "C++ View". August 2001.
• Interview by the Turkish magazine Biltek. May 2001. In Turkish. English version.
• Interview by Danny Kalev for linuxworld.com. March 2001.

• Interview by Quinn Tyler Jackson for the Pi Society. November 2000.
• Interview of Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Strosutrup, and James Gosling by Herb Sutter for the Java Report, 5(7), and the C++ Report, 12(7). July/August 2000.
• Interview by Elden Nelson for the Visual C++ Developers Journal. Vol 3 No 5. June 2000.
• Interview by slashdot.org from February 2000.
• Interview by Kurt Westh Nielsen for Ingeniøren part1 and part 2 from February 2000. In Danish.

• Interview by Computable from May 1999. In Dutch.
• Interview by Phillipe Lourier for Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast from January 1999. (with video).

• Interview by IEEE Computer from IEEE Computer Magazine, June 1998. Posted with permission from IEEE. (pdf version).
• Interview by Andrew P. Madden from Red Herring magazine, June 1998.

• Interview by Object magazine Online from December 1997.
• Transcript of a short talk followed by a question-and-answers session at the Computer Literacy Bookstore October 1997.
• Interview by Amazon books from late 1997.
• Addison Wesley interview from mid-1997.

• Interview by an Italian journalist given in September 1996.
• Interview by Chuck Allison from the C/C++ Journal, 1996.
• Interview by Amazon books from 1996.
• Interview by Judy Tolliver for a University of Illinois CS department alumni magazine from March 1996.