Re: Bjarne Stroustroup interview---a joke, right?

On 27.09.2024 16:14, Johanne Fairchild wrote:

Obviously, this is a joke, right?  (Interview source at the end.)

With a bit of safety attunement, mentally preparing myself that it
might have been some KI-generated fake I started reading...

I didn't complete reading the "interview" text; it was too absurd!

Far away from other, original Stroustroup texts that he published
over time since the 1980's. If it's not a joke it must be someone
trying to build a conspiracy theory; how else could the divergence
of decades long deviations from reality be otherwise explained.

It's untypical that I don't read to the end, but it hurts reading.

Janis

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Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It For You All…”
 
On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the
IEEE’s ‘Computer’ magazine..
 
Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving a retrospective view
of seven years of object-oriented design, using the language he created.
 
By the end of the interview, the interviewer got more than he had
bargained for and, subsequently, the editor decided to suppress its
contents, ‘for the good of the industry’ but, as with many of these
things, there was a leak..
 
Here is a complete transcript of what was was said, unedited, and
unrehearsed, so it isn’t as neat as planned interviews..
 
You will find it interesting….
 
[...]
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Source:
https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all