Interviews: Ask Bjarne Stroustrup About Programming and C++ 427
In addition to being the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup is a Managing Director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley, a Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Columbia University, and a Distinguished Research Professor in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. Bjarne has written a number of books and was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He will be doing a live Google + Q & A within the C++ community on August 20th, 2014 at 12:30pm EST, but has agreed to answer your questions first. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
Re:Is the complexity of C++ a practical joke? (Score:5, Informative)
C# pioneered lambda's.
Whaaaaaat? C# was created in 1999/2000. Lisp, which was based on lambda calculus, was first specified in 1958.