The Story of C++ (70 min documentary video)

This is rather good - from C with Classes, through CFront to C++, soundbites from the people involved:

From the video description:

This is the story of C++, one of the world’s most widely-used and consequential programming languages. C++ divides opinion, resists replacement, and has outlasted almost everything built to supersede it.

C++ The Documentary traces the full arc, from its origins in the corridors of Bell Labs to the global community that shapes it today.

Featuring the people who built it, extended it, argued over it, and refused to let it die.

Bjarne Stroustrup: Bell Labs, Designer and original implementer of C++
Alexander Stepanov: Designer of the Standard Template Library
Anders Hejlsberg: Creator of C#, TypeScript, and Turbo Pascal
Andrei Alexandrescu: Principal Research Scientist, Nvidia & C++ Author
Andrew Koenig: Bell Labs, Founding member of the C++ Standards Committee, Researcher, C++ Author & Educator
Barbara Moo: Bell Labs, Manager C++ Development Team & C++ Author
Brian Kernighan: Bell Labs, Computer Scientist, Co-author of “The C Programming Language”
Chris Lattner: Creator of Mojo, LLVM, Clang & Swift
Danilo Piparo: Particle Physicist, CERN, ROOT Framework Project Lead
Eric Lubin: Software Developer - Lead, Hudson River Trading
Gabriel Dos Reis: Software Engineer and Architect, Microsoft; C++ tools builder; Mathematician
Herb Sutter: Technical Fellow, Citadel Securities; Chair, Standard C++ Foundation; Emeritus Chair, ISO C++ Committee
John Romero: Video Game Developer, Co-Creator of Doom and Quake, Co-Founder id Software
Nina Ranns: Vice-Convener of the ISO C++ Committee

Edit: via @rat on the fediverse

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The rest of that listing is here:

which is part of:

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There’s even a blurry cameo from Matt Godbolt at 52:33. :smile:

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