
Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously they have spoken to
Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame,
S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its
server-side script engine ASP, and
Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. In the latest interview Computerworld chats with
Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame about the design and development of C++, garbage collection and the role of facial hair in successful programming languages.