Bjarne Stroustrup, creator and developer of C++, delivers his talk entitled, The Essence of C++. Stroustrup has held distinguished posts at Texas A&M University and spent significant time in the Computer Science Departments of Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton. C++ is the one of the world's most widely used technology languages and it has influenced newer languages such as C# and Java as well as older languages. Find more information on Bjarne Stroustrup and this lecture: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/news-events/lectures/bstoustrup Recorded on 28 April 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's George Square Lecture Theatre.