Bjarne Stroustrup: C++

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++, a programming
language that after 40 years is still one of the most popular and
powerful languages in the world. Its focus on fast, stable,
robust code underlies many of the biggest systems in the world
that we have come to rely on as a society. If you’re watching
this on YouTube, many of the critical back-end component of
YouTube are written in C++. Same goes for Google, Facebook,
Amazon, Twitter, most Microsoft applications, Adobe applications,
most database systems, and most physical systems that operate in
the real-world like cars, robots, rockets that launch us into
space and one day will land us on Mars.


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00:00 – Introduction
01:40 – First program
02:18 – Journey to C++
16:45 – Learning multiple languages
23:20 – Javascript
25:08 – Efficiency and reliability in C++
31:53 – What does good code look like?
36:45 – Static checkers
41:16 – Zero-overhead principle in C++
50:00 – Different implementation of C++
54:46 – Key features of C++
1:08:02 – C++ Concepts
1:18:06 – C++ Standards Process
1:28:05 – Constructors and destructors
1:31:52 – Unified theory of programming
1:44:20 – Proudest moment