Bjarne Stroustrup

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Many thanks to Bjarne Stroustrup, recognized as the father of C++, who was kind enough to share his thoughtful responses to the following questions:

• What is your programming language of choice?

  C++

• What is your favorite operating system?

  Unix

• Do you have a hero or role model?

  Not any single individual. Naturally, there are many people that I look up to and would like to be a bit like if I could. Usually, these are people of great ability accompanied with modesty, humor, and humanity. One example is Niels Bohr, but his genius is of a level that makes close identification or even hero worship pretentious.

• What is your favorite kind of music?

  classical (Teleman through to Stravinsky), light rock

• What is your favorite news group?

  sigh. They all seem infected by flamers these days.

• What is your favorite web page (besides geekchic!)?

  http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/

• What sports do you enjoy?

  soccer, ice hockey, and skiing (as a spectator), running

• What kind of car do you drive?

  a silver Audi90cs

• What hobbies do you enjoy outside of work?

  reading, photography, music (as a listener), light hiking

• What is your favorite book (or author)?

  Martin A. Hansen (a Danish fiction author and essayist), but I mostly read history (essentially all kinds) and science fiction (most hard sf).

• What is your favorite movie?

  I'm not much af a movie fan

• What sort of clothing do you usually wear to work?

  off-white khaki pants, whitish shirt, rolled up sleeves, no tie, running shoes

• What is your favorite food?

  just about anything(preferably including meat or fish) in good company