Comment by tialaramex
15 hours ago
Certainly we can say that Bjarne will insist he was right decades later. We can't necessarily guess - at the time - what it is he will have "always" believed decades later though.
15 hours ago
Certainly we can say that Bjarne will insist he was right decades later. We can't necessarily guess - at the time - what it is he will have "always" believed decades later though.
You made me laugh!...Bjarne indeed can't be accused of being a modest man. And by some accounts, he's quite a political animal.
But in fairness, when was D&E first published? Argued for auto there, long before their acceptance. Argued for implicit template instantiation - thank god the "everything-must-be-explicit" curmudgeons were vanquished there, too.
He's got a pretty good batting average - certainly better than Herb Sutter.