Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
Programming IT Technology

C++ Inventor Changing Jobs 95

Posted by chrisd from the stl-at-a-and-m dept.
JewFish writes "Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup, designer and implementer of the C++ programming language is switching jobs. He has accepted the COE Endowed Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. The fulfillment of this fulltime position was announced today by the head of the computer science department. Now that Dr. Stroustrup will be on faculty I sure hope they start offering a C++ course or two."
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

C++ Inventor Changing Jobs More

C++ Inventor Changing Jobs

Comments Filter:

  • Just imagine... (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    in a job interview saing something like... "Yes I know C++, I learned it from Dr. Stroustrup. You know... they guy who invented it?" I'm switching universities!
    • It still won't help their football team.
      • A Red Raider dissing a football team on Slashdot. I've seen it all.

        Postage went up July 1st by the way. Maybe Leach should pay back all of that gas money he jacked to pay for all of his trips to the liquor store.
    • I took a C & Unix course from a Dr Lan at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I posted a few of his test questions to the comp.lang.c group. The funny thing is that dmr replied with the same answer as I put on the test and got it wrong. After getting a D in the class I went through the fromal appleals process. When I showed dr lan the answer was in the k&r book, hs said he didn't recognize the auhority of that book. Since the asst dean of engr knew about the book and who wrote it, it made my point clear but I only got a B out of the class. Now what is the standard shell under unix? everyone say "seashell". Problem is the idiot is still teaching.
    • Just be sure you prononce his name correctly!

  • Surprising, or unlikely? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by jdennett ( 157516 ) on Wednesday July 10, 2002 @04:45AM (#3855215)
    Given that only a few days ago I was in dialog with Mr Stroustrup regarding publicising some work he is publishing at [att.com]
    http://www.research.att.com/~bs/applications.htm l it would be surprising to me if he had made plans to abandon his post at AT&T so suddenly.

    On the other hand, AT&T research did recently shed a large number of staff, including Matt Austern, author of the fine book "Generic Programming and the STL" (fear not, Matt is now working for Apple), so who knows what's going on there.

    Teaching is something Bjarne feels very strongly about, and indeed his "directions for C++0x" thoughts emphasize the importance of making C++ easier to teach.

    Ah well, if this is true, a lot of FAQs will need to have updated URLs...
  • Maybe he will add functional programming to C++. It can hang out with OO, generic, and structural programming. That would be awesome.

    I'm joking... kindof.

  • And in other news... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Garg ( 35772 ) on Wednesday July 10, 2002 @07:23AM (#3855680) Homepage
    ... Linus Torvalds is leaving TransMeta to become a professor at Southern Methodist.

    Seriously, where's the evidence of this? Not a single one of the links in the submission mentions a damn thing about it.

    Do the /. editors ever do a single bit of checking to see if a story is factual? If not, I've got quite a few articles involving politicians and livestock I've been wanting to submit...

    Garg
  • And have heard numerous rumors about this, from many CS grad students, however I am not at TAMU now and can not confirm but to my knowledge this was already a reality even before the summer began.


    dam(TAMU)

  • Wow (Score:1)

    by dar ( 15755 )
    Stroustrup ... an Aggie? Whoda thunk it?

  • Wow! (Score:4, Informative)

    by glitchvern ( 468940 ) on Wednesday July 10, 2002 @11:00AM (#3857309) Homepage
    I go to Texas A&M. Checking my cs e-mail account I find this:

    Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:30:50 -0500 (CDT)
    From: Jennifer Welch
    To: faculty@cs.tamu.edu, csgrads@cs.tamu.edu, csunder@cs.tamu.edu,
    watson@tamu.edu, rgd@tamu.edu, richard-ewing@tamu.edu
    Subject: Stroustrup accepts COE Endowed Chair in computer science
    Resent-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:32:38 -0500 (CDT)
    Resent-From: csunder@cs.tamu.edu

    Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the C++ language, has accepted
    our offer to fill the endowed chair in computer science!

    -- Jennifer

    So yeah, it looks like he's coming here. This is really amazing because our cs department sucks so much. Until very recently the cs unix servers would not forward X11 connections, /etc/shells was not readable, and ssh keys couldn't be used as a login method. It looks like ypcat passwd still gives me the password file (been meaning to go down there and tell them about that) and neither ypchsh nor chsh is installed so I still can't change my shell. That said they have been improving a lot lately and having talked to an associate head for the department recently they appear to be aware of some of the problems with the curriculum and are going to fix them. Too late for me though. In the four years I've been here I feel like I have learned almost nothing (well from the cs department that is).
    • heh be careful, at my uni when I told them about a readable password file they threatened to expel me for "hacking".
    • FWIW, I confirmed this directly with a faculty member I know there.

      I realize that until they post the news on their website, instead of posting the advertisement for the position Bjarne has reportedly accepted, this may be hard to believe.

      Does anyone have a scorecard of all the recent departures from AT&T Research?


    • This is really amazing because our cs department sucks so much. Until very recently the cs unix servers would not forward X11 connections, /etc/shells was not readable, and ssh keys couldn't be used as a login method. It looks like ypcat passwd still gives me the password file (been meaning to go down there and tell them about that) and neither ypchsh nor chsh is installed so I still can't change my shell.
      You know, computer science is different than unix system administration. Computer science is, fundamentally, the study of algorithms (which themselves are equivalence classes of physical processes). Your department may very well suck, but the fact that the unix boxes are poorly run does not necessarily make your case.

      -- p
      • The department does not suck. The problem is that you have a network/UNIX jockey mad because he had to do some real work.

        I got my BS in Comp Sci from A&M and I didn't really appreciate the education I was getting from there until I got out and worked with people who didn't know anything other than language semantics and technology.

        Most of the malcontents at A&M and every other department end up malcontents at whatever company they work for because so-and-so boss/teacher/admin is always an idiot.
        • When were you here? There was a major curriculum change when I came in. It introduced a lot of problems. The unix machines being misconfigured is just something I can say is objectively wrong the other stuff is more subjective. The unix machines state doesn't bother me that much it's just a little annoying. My real problem is the courses are to easy and I don't think I'm learning anything. Maybe when I get out I'll realize I did learn something and the department doesn't suck as much as I thought it did like you did but I don't know. A lot of people entered comp sci during the dot com boom just because and I think the department may have made the courses easier. I'm generally a very cheerful person, but the comp sci department is a bit of a sore spot with me. Everytime I start to think they don't suck they go and do something to prove me wrong.
      • Your department may very well suck, but the fact that the unix boxes are poorly run does not necessarily make your case.
        I know the misconfiguration is just the thing that is the most objectively wrong. There are other problems but they are more subjective.

        Most of the courses aren't hard enough.

        The advisors seem not to care about students when you go and talk to them.

        Some of the professors aren't very good (I had three bad professors in a row - One knew her stuff but had really bad public speaking skills. Another was there to do research and was downright hostile. The class eventually had a meeting with the department head about him he was so bad. The third was a grad student and it was his first time to teach. I think he'll make a good professor one day but he was very inexperienced and kind of didn't know what he was doing.)

        Also the curriculum had just been redone when I came in and there were some problems with it. They seem to be aware of the problems with the curriculum and are working to fix it, but it is still a problem. The dot com boom meant a lot of people were in cs because it was the place to be. The department ended up overloaded because it had a lot of people in it. Also since the courses were new their complaining that the courses were to hard was interpreted as legitimate feedback and the courses were then made to easy.

        My main problem is the courses being to easy. It feels like I haven't learned anything. But that's a subjective statement that can be easily dismissed as my opinion as can most of the other stuff as either my opinion, bad luck, or both. The misconfiguration is the only thing I can point to that is objectively just plain wrong.
        • Talk to Childs (I think he's still there) - he'll help you out if you think the classes are too easy. I graduated from the CS department in 2000, and I really enjoyed my stay there. I was able to take graduate level classes during my last two years, and that made up for the "easy" classes.

          As for the classes being easy - I've since gone on to graduate school, and comparing what I learned in ugrad to what others in my classes learned, I would have to say that A&M is a much better curriculum than most. Hell, Pooch for OS helped me pass the OS class at CMU.

          The admins in the CS dept suck - end of story - go find a job in the math or physics department - you'll find that they know what they're doing.
          • comparing what I learned in ugrad to what others in my classes learned, I would have to say that A&M is a much better curriculum than most
            Thanks, I've been worried about not knowing anything and always wondered if other schools were the same, better, worse, or what have you, but I have no basis for comparison. It's good to know other schools are just as bad.
    • That's Awesome. I'll be Bjarne can install ypchsh for you in a jiffy.
    • According to my friend Vern at A&M, you seem to learn more Computer Science in the upper level math courses than in CS!
  • Whoop! I'd say that is definitely an incremental improvement for A&M. And if he doesn't know how to play 42, he will soon.

    Gig 'em!
  • He must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Clearly, a man this intellegent ment to be going to the only University of Texas [utexas.edu]. Seriously, that's what we're called THE University of Texas. This A&M place must be some sort of a hoax.

    This is not a troll. Just the results of four years of constant propaganda. Sorry, can't help it.
  • I am aggie and have connections in the CS department and this is no rumor. It is true and will be great for the CS dept and the univeristy in general. Although I dont know if it will be good for the Java advocates at TAMU! peacedog
  • The Texas A&M CS dept. homepage [tamu.edu] now includes, among other rotating photos, pictures of Bjarne [tamu.edu] and a pointer [tamu.edu] to the news that he has accepted the endowed faculty position.

  • http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/storie s/02/072302-3.html

    (took them long enough)

  • Well with the way things are going in the slumping economy and the Fall of IT I am not surprised that many people are going back to schools....well my Q is whats the point of going back to school and learn C++....what are you going to do with it...there are trillions of people who already know...(I know the population on earth is > 6billion)...but neways...C++ is great....

Slashdot Top Deals

GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY (#7): April 2, 1751 Issac Newton becomes discouraged when he falls up a flight of stairs.

Close