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Never any money in c++, pretty sure Bell labs funded bjorne
by groovebits 7y ago
Never any money in c++, pretty sure Bell labs funded bjorne
- ncmncm 7y agoBell Labs paid his salary, but they paid it before C++ as much as after, and would have paid it without. If others had not taken up C++, he would have gone on to other things. C++'s unique contribution was the destructor, not adopted elsewhere until D and then Rust. The contrast is against Sun spending literally $billions on Java puffery. Go has put a lot more support into Go, by that standard, but still barely $millions, if that.