An interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, covering three key topics: how Bell Labs fostered innovation by hiring top talent and giving them freedom, the concept of negative overhead abstraction (how C++ abstractions can actually improve performance over C by giving the compiler more information), and the little-known history of a garbage collection API introduced in C++ in 1995 that was later removed due to low adoption among developers who preferred manual memory management.
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