Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling (2000)
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- The C family of languages (C, C++, Java) has dominated commercial programming for over 30 years.
- C99 was officially released in December 1999, continuing C's influence, especially in embedded systems.
- The first official update to the ISO/ANSI C++ standard was completed in October 2000.
- Java's popularity continues to grow, with Sun deciding to abandon formal standardization efforts.
- Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling discuss the success and future of their respective languages.
- C's success was partly due to its use as the lingua franca of Unix.
- C++ owes much of its initial popularity to its compatibility with C.
- Java's initial popularity was driven by intense marketing.
- The creators discuss design goals, challenges, and lessons learned from their languages.
- Common mistakes developers make in C, C++, and Java are highlighted.
- The importance of formal and de facto standards for programming languages is debated.
- Future trends in software development and programming languages are discussed.