Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
It's 1985, mid-way through a fast-moving decade of computing that’s defined by explosive growth in the brand-new PC market and the beginnings of general-purpose business computing.
Computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup at the famous AT&T Bell Labs has been working on an advanced form of distributed computing and - frustrated with the programming languages available for his work - he has just released a brand-new language of his own: C++.
35 years later Bjarne’s language is thriving: C++ is in widespread use in cameras, in-car systems, banking, computer browsers and more, and it remains popular with millions of developers.
TNMOC’s Language Makers hears from Bjarne about the road to C++, how C++ matters more now than before as the hardware "gets weirder" - and how he never actually set out to build a new language.
It's 1985, mid-way through a fast-moving decade of computing that’s defined by explosive growth in the brand-new PC market and the beginnings of general-purpose business computing.
Computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup at the famous AT&T Bell Labs has been working on an advanced form of distributed computing and - frustrated with the programming languages available for his work - he has just released a brand-new language of his own: C++.
35 years later Bjarne’s language is thriving: C++ is in widespread use in cameras, in-car systems, banking, computer browsers and more, and it remains popular with millions of developers.
TNMOC’s Language Makers hears from Bjarne about the road to C++, how C++ matters more now than before as the hardware "gets weirder" - and how he never actually set out to build a new language.
